Fossils Quizizz Practice for Test

A boy was hiking through a desert with his family. He found a fossilized insect that has pinchers for eating grass while he was digging in the sand. What can the boy conclude about the habitat of the once living insect?

• The area was always a desert and someone put the fossil there.

• The area was once covered in water and must have had sea animals.

• The area must have once had lots of grass because of the characteristics of the fossil.

• The area has always been a desert because of the location where the fossil was found.

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A student went on a fossil dig in the desert and found the two following fossils. Based upon the evidence of the fossils in the chart above, what can the student conclude when comparing the environment of the location the two fossils were found in?

• The environment has always been a desert environment because a horseshoe crab and ammonite fossil were found in a desert.

• The environment has changed over time from an area covered with water to a desert because long ago the animals lived in water.

• The environment has always been a desert environment, but the horseshoe crab and ammonite fossil moved locations over time.

• The environment has changed over time from an area covered in forests with a lot of trees since there is water for these creatures to live in.

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Which of the following would be the best way to create a model of a fossil?

• Making a footprint and filling it with clay

• Making a footprint in mud and filling it with water

• Pressing a hand into snow and taking a picture of it

• Making a footprint in mud and filling it with milk

Which property of the leaf can be learned from the fossil?

• The size of the leaf

• The color of the leaf

• How fast the leaf grew

• Which animals ate the leaf

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What was most likely the habitat of the fossil?

• River

• Forest

• Desert

• Mountains

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From the fossil, which of the following observations is NOT an observation that a scientist could make about the dinosaur?

• The size the dinosaur was.

• What the dinosaur ate.

• The color the dinosaur was.

• That the dinosaur moved on four feet.

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Scientists discovered the fossilized remains of an unidentified animal. They can tell from its remains that it had gills and fins, but no legs. What conclusion about the animal can they draw from the evidence?

• It was a land mammal.

• It lived in the water all the time.

• It had legs that did not fossilize.

• It lived in the water and on land.

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Which animal part could form a fossil?

• Fur

• Skin

• Lung

• bone

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How did scientists first learn about dinosaurs?

• By studying their fossils

• By reading about them

• By watching movies

• By seeing them in real life

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Erik and Carol are each creating a model to represent how an imprint of a leaf fossil is formed. Below are their descriptions of the model they created. Erik: I took a leaf and pressed it into play dough. Then I took the leaf off, and it left an imprint. I then buried it in soil. Carol: I took a leaf and pressed it into clay. When I took the leaf off, I poured glue into the imprint on the clay. Who has a more accurate model?

• a. Erik, because he used play dough and it will decompose in the soil.

• b. Erik, because he buried it in soil which happens to all dead things.

• c. Carol, because the glue represents the minerals filling in the spaces to form a fossil.

• d. Carol, because she used clay and it could be molded over and over into something new.