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Fossils Review

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a fossil?

a)

dinosaur bones

b)

really old rocks

c)

the hardened remains of ancient organisms

d)

the remains of organisms

2.

What is an organism?

a)

a scientific tool

b)

a house

c)

an old rock

d)

any living thing

3.

What is an environment?

a)

the place where an organism lives

b)

where a tree lives

c)

a layer of the Earth

d)

the weather outside

4.

What is a Paleontologist?

a)

A scientist that studies frogs

b)

A scientist that studies environments

c)

A scientist that studies fossils

d)

A weatherman

5.

What can we learn from fossils?

a)

How ancient organisms once lived

b)

Where an ancient organism lived

c)

What an ancient organism ate

d)

All of the above

6.

Based upon the image above of a fossilized tooth, what would this ancient organism have eaten?

a)

fruits

b)

plants

c)

other animals/meat

d)

water only

7.

Why is the picture shown above NOT a fossil?

a)

It is not millions of years old

b)

It is not a dinosaur print

c)

It is a human hand, not an animal

d)

There are only five fingers

8.

What is the minimum age required for something to be considered a fossil?

a)

Really, really old

b)

100 years old

c)

10, 000 years old

d)

5,000 years old

9.

What type of rocks are fossils more likely to be found in?

a)

Metamorphic rocks

b)

Igneous rocks

c)

Sedimentary rocks

10.

Why are fossils important?

a)

They provide a fun hobby for scientists.

b)

They give my dog something to chew on.

c)

They provide evidence of past organisms.

d)

They prove that humans were always around.