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fossil

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of the following terms is the most accurate expression for the traces and remains

a)

Fossils.

b)

petrification

c)

extinction

d)

red list

2.

______ is/are from the suitable conditions for fossil formation of any organism.

a)

A hard skeleton

b)

A medium protects it from decomposition

c)

Buried immediately after death

d)

All the answers

3.

What is the kind of fossil that is formed when a plant leaf falls on a soft sedimentary rock at the beginning of formation, then hardening ?

a)

Trace

b)

Cast.

c)

Mold.

d)

none

4.

What is the difference between Mammoth fossil and amber fossil:

a)

the medium of preservation

b)

mammoth is a trace

c)

amber is a remain

d)

none

5.

What is meant by index fossils

a)

They are fossils of organisms that had lived for a short period of time in the past and had a wide geographic distribution, then became extinct.

b)

They are fossils of organisms that had lived for a long period of time in the past and had a wide geographic distribution, then became extinct.

c)

They are fossils of organisms that had lived for a short period of time in the past and had a small geographic distribution, then became extinct.

d)

none

6.

Petrified woods are considered from rocks

a)

true

b)

false

7.

Nummulites fossil is used in determination the age of sedimentary

rocks.

a)

true

b)

false

8.

coral fossils indicate that the environment where they lived

was clear warm shallow seas.

a)

true

b)

false

9.

Ferns fossils indicate that the environment where they lived

was a sea floor

a)

true

b)

false

10.

The________ is what the living organism leave after its death

in the sedimentary rocks.

a)

remain

b)

trace

c)

mold

d)

none

11.

Worms' tunnels fossil is from __________ of an old living organisms.

a)

trace

b)

remains

c)

mold fossil

d)

cast fossil

12.

El-mokattam mountain was a part of a sea floor more than 35 million years ago due to :

a)

Nummulites fossils

b)

coral fossils

c)

mold fossils

d)

cast fossils

13.

Index fossils used to :

a)

indicate the age of sedimentary rocks

b)

indicate the age of igneous rocks

c)

indicate the age of earth

d)

none

14.

Fossils used to :

a)

Figuring out the paleoenvironment

b)

Age determination of sedimentary rocks

c)

studying life evolution and Petroleum exploration

d)

all answers

15.

ferns fossils indicate the environment was a sea floor

a)

true

b)

false

16.

give reason : elmokatam mountain was a part of sea floor more than 35 million years ago

4 lines
17.

mention one use of index fossils

4 lines
18.

the suitable medium for formation the mammoth fossil is (a)   -

19.

the first mammoth fossil was discovered in the last century which kept as (a)   fossil

20.

the resinous matter is serrated from

------------- trees

(a)  

21.

mold of snail carries the (a)   details for the snail

22.

petrified woods are considered as a rocks

a)

true

b)

false

23.

worms tunnels fossils is form remains of an old living organisms

a)

true

b)

false

24.

type of fossil:

a)

nummulite cast

b)

ammonites cast

c)

nummulite solid mold

d)

ammonites solid mold

25.

it is the replica of the internal details of the structure of an old living organism

a)

solid mold fossil

b)

cast fossil

c)

whole body fossil

d)

petrified fossil