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Fossils

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
People who study fossils are called ____.
a)
meterologists
b)
fossilologists
c)
paleontologists
d)
fossil hunters
2.
Where can the oldest layer be found?
a)
The top layer
b)
The middle layer
c)
They are all the same age
d)
The bottom layer
3.
Which layer formed first?
a)
Rock Layer W
b)
Rock Layer X
c)
Rock Layer Y
d)
Rock Layer Z
4.
Fossils give us evidence about which of the following?
a)
plants and animals that lived long ago
b)
how weathering and erosion break down rocks
c)
the other planets in our solar system
d)
the transfer of energy from one form  to another
5.
Finding fossils in an area can help us learn what about that location?
a)
Which places in the region receive the most sunlight
b)
The effect of the climate on the formation of the soil
c)
How modern plants and animals interact there
d)
The kinds of organisms that lived there long ago
6.
Fossils of fish are found under land where cows now live. What does this tell you?
a)
the fish were dropped their by flying birds
b)
this land was once under the ocean
c)
farmers fed the fish to the cows
d)
fish used to live on land
7.

What is the process of moving sediments from location to another?

a)

Deposition

b)

Erosion

c)

Weathering

d)

Compaction

8.

Which of the following is NOT one of the three layers of soil?

a)

topsoil

b)

undersoil

c)

subsoil

d)

humus

9.
What are the 3 major types of rocks?
a)
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary
b)
Metamorphic, Igneous, Cementation
c)
Brown, Red, Gray
d)
Streak, Hardness, Breakage
10.

Rocks are made from...

a)

Plants

b)

Minerals

c)

Animals

d)

People

11.

What changes the Earth's surface?

a)

Water

b)

Wind

c)

Volcanoes

d)

All of the Above

12.

What is changed by erosion

a)

Hills, Mountains, Cars

b)

Hills, Mountains, Rocks

c)

Hills, Mountains, Animals

d)

Hills, Mountains, Schools

13.

What changed the shape of Michigan

a)

Glaciers

b)

Volcanoes

c)

Earthquake

d)

Moon

14.

What is an earthquake?

a)

A violent sudden force that brings changes to land

b)

A Landform that contains lava that brings changes to land

c)

When rocks/sand are moved from one place to another

d)

The breaking down of rock

15.

Why do scientists wet fossils?

a)

Brings out details

b)

Makes them slippery

c)

Gets germs off

d)

Helps them to grow

16.

Where do you not find fossils?

a)

Sticky pine tree resin

b)

In Frozen Glaciers

c)

In Rocks

d)

You actually find them in all these places!

17.

What tells you the most about the history of the Earth?

a)

Water

b)

Plants and Animals

c)

People

d)

Rocks and Fossils

18.

Soil is made of...

a)

Non living things

b)

Living Things and sand

c)

Living and non living things

d)

Layers, no more than three

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