Fossils

Observe the fossil. Which statement about the fossil is true?

• The fossil shows an animal that is living today on land.

• The fossil shows an animal that is living today in the water.

• The fossil shows an animal from the past that lived on land.

• The fossil shows an animal from the past that lived in the water.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Observe the fossils in the photo. Explain how you know that the footprints are made from an animal in the past.

 

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CCSS.RI.2.7

CCSS.RI.3.7

CCSS.RI.4.7

CCSS.RL.3.7

CCSS.RL.4.7

Observe the fossil from Texas.

What does it show about past living organisms and environments?

Select two correct answers.

• the body shape and size of a trilobite

• the number of trilobites that lived in Texas

• the trilobite environment was under water

• the color of the outer shell of a trilobite

  
  

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

How do we know dinosaurs existed?

• Because we saw dinosaurs

• Because the caveman told us

• Because of the fossils of their bones and footprints

• Because our science textbooks tell us

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CCSS.RI.1.9

CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.4.5

What is evidence?

• No longer existing

• Proof or reason to support a claim

• any remains or prints of living things in the past

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CCSS.RI.2.9

CCSS.RI.4.8

CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.RL.1.5

CCSS.RL.4.5

What is a fossil?

• No longer existing

• Proof or reason to support a claim

• any remains or prints of living things in the past

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is it mean to be extinct?

• No longer existing

• Proof or reason to support a claim

• any remains or prints of living things in the past

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CCSS.RI.2.4

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

What is the best prediction of what this dinosaur eats?

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What can fossils tell us about dinosaurs?

Select 3 answers.

• The size

• What it eats

• How it walked/speed

• How they made noise

Dinosaur bones are the only example of fossils.

• True
• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1