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WorksheetsRock and Fossil Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What helps us to study Earth's history?
a)
Books
b)
Rocks
c)
Trees
d)
Plants
2.
What can become a fossil?
a)
People and plants
b)
People
c)
Plants and animals
d)
Only animals
3.
How many major types of rock are there?
a)
One
b)
Two
c)
Three
d)
Four
4.
Which of the following is NOT a type of rock?
a)
Fossil
b)
Igneous
c)
Sedimentary
d)
Metamorphic
5.
True or False: If fossils are deeper in the ground, they are older than fossils closer to the surface.
a)
True
b)
False
6.
True or False: Fossils can help us study what life is like in the past.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
What type of fossil contains an animal's footprints, burrows, or tracks?
a)
Cast Fossil
b)
Mold Fossil
c)
Trace Fossil
d)
Body Fossil
8.
What type of fossil is formed when water seeps into the rock and breaks down the hard parts of the organism leaving behind an imprint of the plant or animal?
a)
Cast Fossil
b)
Mold Fossil
c)
Trace Fossil
d)
Body Fossil
9.
What type of fossil is the remains of an entire organism?
a)
Cast Fossil
b)
Mold Fossil
c)
Trace Fossil
d)
Body Fossil
10.
What type of fossil is formed when minerals and mud fill the fossil and take the shape of the once living organism?
a)
Cast Fossil
b)
Mold Fossil
c)
Trace Fossil
d)
Body Fossil
11.
What type of rock forms from tiny particles called sediment, which forms on the Earth's surface?
a)
Igneous
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Metamorphic
d)
Lava
12.
What type of rock forms when rocks are buried and heat and/or pressure causes the rock to change into a new rock?
a)
Igneous
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Metamorphic
d)
Lava
13.
What type of rock forms when magma or lava cools and hardens?
a)
Igneous
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Metamorphic
d)
Lava
14.
What are naturally occurring solid aggregates of one or more minerals that make up the Earth's crust?
a)
Fossils
b)
Rocks
c)
Magma
d)
Lava
15.
What are the preserved remains of a once living organism?
a)
Fossils
b)
Rocks
c)
Plants
d)
Animals
16.
Which type of rock can fossils mostly be found in?
a)
Igneous
b)
Sedimentary
c)
Metamorphic
d)
Lava
17.
What can preserve animals completely, including their hair?
a)
Water
b)
Rock
c)
Sand
d)
Ice
18.
Why do paleontologists need to be careful when excavating fossils?
a)
So that they can make a lot of money.
b)
So that they be on the news.
c)
So that they don't damage the fossil.
d)
So that they can become famous for finding the fossil.
19.
What happens when a fossil is frozen in ice?
a)
The fossil breaks apart.
b)
The fossil is preserved completely, including its hair.
c)
Fossils cannot be frozen in ice.
d)
The fossil cracks.
20.
How do fossils help us to study the past?
a)
They give us clues to what plants and animals were like in the past.
b)
They help us to remember what happened that day.
c)
They can't really help us study the past.
d)
They give us clues to what life will be like in the future.
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