Bill Nye: Fossils

Bill Nye: Fossils

Assessment

Interactive Video

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5th Grade

Easy

Created by

Colleen Murphy

Used 10+ times

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12 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Fossils comes from a Latin word that means "to dig".

True

False

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What are fossils?

Evidence of living things that have turned to stone.

Evidence of living things that have turned to liquid.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Fossils tell us that over what percentage of all living things to ever inhabit the Earth have gone extinct?

75%

90%

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When mud fills the impression made by a living creature and dries to form a fossil of that creature's imprint, it is called a:

trace

petrification

mold

footprint

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

When a plant or animal dies and leaves a mark, and the mark is then fossilized, it is called a:

petrification

mold

trace

cast

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Most fossils are how old?

hundreds of millions of years

a few thousand years

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In petrified wood, the wood is replaced with the mineral:

feldspar

pyrite

silica

mica

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