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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 30mins
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1.
What are the hardened remains of living things that died long ago?
a)
Extinct
b)
Fossils
c)
Metamorphic rock
d)
Minerals
2.
True or false: All once-living organisms left behind fossils.
a)
True.
b)
False.
3.
A fossil is ____.
a)
a dead rotten animal
b)
the remains of things that lived a long, long time ago
c)
a plant that dried up
4.
People who study fossils are called ____.
a)
meterologists
b)
fossilologists
c)
paleontologists
5.
What are the remains of once living things called?
a)
amber
b)
fossils
c)
species
d)
extinct
6.
Fossils give clues about the past.
a)
True
b)
False
7.
Which of the following is an example of a fossil?
a)
A living woolly mammoth.
b)
A leaf that just fell off a tree.
c)
An imprint of a leaf from thousands of years ago.
d)
A recently buried shark.
8.
Which of these is NOT a fossil?
a)
footprints left by an animal thousands of years ago.
b)
a leaf print from thousands of years ago.
c)
a picture of an animal from long ago.
d)
the remains of a dinosaur that have turned to stone.
9.
Which of these can you learn from a fossil? CHOOSE 3.
a)
The size of the animal
b)
What the animal ate
c)
The color of the animal
d)
Where the animal lived
10.
Paleontologists look at the ______ of an animal to determine it's eating habits.
a)
arms
b)
bones
c)
teeth
d)
eyes
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