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Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 8mins
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1.
What information can a fossilized plant give scientists?
a)
what color the plants were long ago
b)
what kind of animals existed long ago
c)
what dinosaurs looked like long ago
d)
what environments were like long ago
2.
What can scientists learn from studying plant fossils?
a)
how long ago the plant lived
b)
how the plant became extinct
c)
how many plants were in the area
d)
how many animals were in the area
3.
A family was hiking on a mountain and found several fossils, including a shark tooth and a clam shell. How has the area changed?
a)
It used to warmer.
b)
It used to be colder.
c)
It used to be an ocean.
d)
It used to be a desert.
4.
Finding warm-weather plant fossils in the layers of a cold northern island suggests that
a)
the fossils are used to cold
b)
the climate used to be warmer
c)
the area used to be located further south
d)
the people used to eat the plants
5.
Which is an example of a fossil?
a)
a footprint in a rock
b)
a seashell under water
c)
a leaf in a puddle
d)
a bone on top of the ground
6.
How could there be fossils of ocean animals in states that are hundreds of miles from the sea?
a)
Lots of the same animals live in those states too.
b)
Groundwater must have carried to fossils to those states.
c)
Seawater must have covered those states at one time.
d)
Animals carried the fossils to those states.
7.
What does this fossil of a leaf most likely show?
a)
The plant was eaten by an animal.
b)
The plant lived a long time ago.
c)
The plant died on a rock.
d)
The plant lived on rocky places.
8.
What does this fossil have in common with a living leaf?
a)
It has the same shape.
b)
It has tissue of a real leaf.
c)
It stores energy.
d)
It was dug from the earth.
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