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

Bill Nye: Fossils

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
True
False
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
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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
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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
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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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