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Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
A fossil is the hardened remains of a _______ or __________ that lived long ago.
candy, toy
iphone, cookie
dinosaur, elephant
plant, animal
Scientists who study fossils are called ____________.
smart
doctors
paleontologists
fossil hunters
__________ fossils are not as common as ____________ fossils.
cat, dog
plant, tree
plant, animal
animal, plant
Scientists study fossils to learn about....
how the Earth is made
properties of rocks
organisms from long ago
how volcanoes are made
What is something that you could not learn from a fossil?
the size of an animal
the color of an animal
what the animal ate
where the animal lived
What statement best describes how a dinosaur fossil is formed?
The dinosaur ate plants.
The dinosaur was frozen in ice.
The dinosaur was covered in sediment.
The dinosaur lived in groups.
In order for a fossil to form which one of these things must happen FIRST?
Slowly, minerals in the water replace the bone.
Sediment covers the bone.
An animal dies.
The bone is no longer a bone, but a rock copy.
All of the following can become fossils except?
bones
shells
teeth
rocks
What kind of fossil could help scientists know more about what kind of food the animal ate?
shells
leg bones
skull
teeth
How long does it usually take a plant or animal to become a fossil?
1 day
1 week
1 month
1 million years
A scientist discovered a fossil of a small dinosaur. What is one way the dinosaur became a fossil?
It was trapped in mud.
It was eaten by another dinosaur.
It was killed by a volcano.
It was washed away in a river.
Evan and his dad went fossil hunting on a mountain. They found a shark tooth and a clam shell. Based on these fossils, how has the area changed?
It used to be warmer.
It used to be colder.
It used to be an ocean.
It used to be in a desert.
