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WorksheetsUnit 2 Fossils
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 16mins
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1.
Scientist discovered 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?
a)
It was a land mammal.
b)
It lived in the water all the time.
c)
It had legs that did not fossilize.
d)
It lived in the water and on land.
2.
How did scientists first learn about dinosaurs?
a)
by studying their fossils
b)
by reading about them
c)
by watching movies
d)
by looking at pictures
3.
Garrett and Kristin are paleontologists working on a dig. They carefully uncover an area that looks to have belonged in an ancient forest. They find eggshells, bones, nests, teeth, claws, and footprints. Garrett is more interested in body fossils, and Kristin is more interested in trace fossils.
What statement best explains which fossils each paleontologists should take to study?
What statement best explains which fossils each paleontologists should take to study?
a)
Garrett should take the bones, claws, and teeth; while Kristin should take the eggshells, nests, and footprints.
b)
Garrett should the claws, eggshells, and nests; while Kristin should take the bones, teeth, and footprints.
c)
Garrett should take the bones, eggshells, and footprints; while Kristing should take the claws, nests, and teeth.
d)
Garrett should take the eggshells, nests, and footprints; while Kristin should take the bones, claws, and teeth.
4.
Which of the following is NOT a body fossil?
a)
bones
b)
claws
c)
footprints
d)
teeth
5.
What is a fossil?
a)
A rock that is millions of years old.
b)
The model created by a scientist to study dinosaurs.
c)
The remains of an organism studied by scientist.
d)
An organism that has become extinct.
6.
Which of the following is true about where fossils are found?
a)
Fossils are found only in parts of the world where there is water.
b)
Fossils are found only parts of the world with volcanoes.
c)
Fossils are found all over the world, mostly in water.
d)
Fossils are found all over the world, mostly in rock.
7.
Jon and Hailey are scientists. One afternoon, they both make discoveries. Jon finds a tooth fossil belonging to a dinosaur. Hailey finds a fossil of scratch marks.
What type of fossils did Jon and Hailey find?
What type of fossils did Jon and Hailey find?
a)
They both found body fossils.
b)
They both found trace fossils.
c)
Jon found a body fossil, and Hailey found a trace fossil.
d)
Jon found a trace fossil, and Hailey found a body fossil.
8.
What type of fossil would provide the best information about how an organism behaved?
a)
A true form fossil.
b)
A mold fossil.
c)
A cast fossil
d)
A trace fossil.
9.
Which type of scientist studies life that existed long ago, mostly by studying fossils?
a)
biologist
b)
zoologist
c)
botanist
d)
paleontologist
10.
Which of the following is NOT something a paleontologist does?
a)
Studies plants from a long time ago.
b)
Looks at the fossilized remains of organisms.
c)
Looks at the features of endangered organisms.
d)
Studies habitats from a long time ago.
11.
Most fossils are found in what kind of rock?
a)
metamorphic
b)
sedimentary
c)
volcanic
d)
granite
12.
When the hole left by the decaying organism is filled in with minerals that harden, it becomes a
a)
mold fossil
b)
trace fossil
c)
cast fossil
d)
true form fossil
13.
An amber fossil is made when
a)
an organism gets trapped in the sticky resin on a tree which hardens and is preserved in rock.
b)
an organism gets caught in the path of lave from a flowing volcano which hardens into rock.
c)
an organism is buried in sediment and the decaying bones are replaced with resin.
d)
an organism is buried in sediment and the pressure and heat turn the organism into amber.
14.
Where are MOST fossils formed?
a)
near volcanoes, because the high heat of the lava helps to form fossils.
b)
in glaciers, because fossils are created when an organism is frozen quickly
c)
in sedimentary rock, because being buried in sediment helps to form fossils
d)
near earthquakes, because the shaking ground traps organisms to create fossils
15.
Which of the following is an example of a cast fossil?
a)
A bird's body leaves a picture of the bird stamped in sediment.
b)
An insect walks across mud, leaving impressions that harden into rock.
c)
A dinosaur's body is buried in sediment, where it decays and is replaced with minerals.
d)
A lizard dies trapped in the resin of a tree until the tree falls over and buried in sediment.
16.
What must happen to an organism's body for it to become a fossil?
a)
It must remain above the ground.
b)
It must dry out in the sunlight.
c)
It must be buried right after death.
d)
It must be eaten by other animals.
17.
Which of the following BEST describes how a mold fossil could have formed?
a)
Minerals and water replaced bone in a horse that was buried in sediment.
b)
Footprints that were made by birds in the mud hardened into rock.
c)
Sediment hardened around a hole in the shape of a reptile after it decayed.
d)
Resin from a tree turned into solid rock with a spider trapped inside of it.
18.
Which of the following statements is true?
a)
It is possible for wood to fossilize.
b)
There is only one way fossils can form.
c)
Only animal remains can become fossils.
d)
The most fossils are made from dinosaur bones.
19.
What is true about the type of rock where fossils are found?
a)
Molten rock from a volcano is most likely to preserve fossils.
b)
Fossils form with a great amount of heat and pressure.
c)
Fossils are found only in sedimentary rocks.
d)
Fossils are more likely to be preserved in minerals than rocks.
20.
Which of the following list the correct order for a living dinosaur to become a fossil?
a)
dinosaur dies and is buried, minerals and water fill the space, time turns the sediment into rock and bones into fossils, fossil is discovered through erosion or excavation
b)
layers of sediment build up, dinosaur dies and is buried, fossil is discovered through erosion and excavation, minerals and water fill the space,
c)
minerals and water fill the space, layers of sediment build up, dinosaur dies and is buried, and is discovered through erosion and excavation
d)
dinosaur is discovered through erosion and excavation, minerals and water fill the spaces, layers of sediment build up, dinosaur dies and is buried
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