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Fossils Project 6th Grade Cohort A

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are Fossils?

a)

Igneous rock that disturbs the rock layers.

b)

Animals covered in tar.

c)

Remains of an animal that have turned to stone.

2.

Click all examples of a Trace fossil.

a)

Dinosaur tracks

b)

A tiger's claw marks on a tree

c)

A bug stuck in ice

3.

What does "The Law of Superposition" do?

a)

Finds the relative age of rock layers.

b)

Finds the absolute age of rock layers.

c)

Finds how many rock layers there is.

d)

Counts how many fossils there are

4.

What is the Geologic Time Scale?

a)

The big events and time periods that have happened during time.

b)

Has 3 eras.

c)

Has 12 periods

d)

All of the above

5.

What is the "Mesozoic Era?"

a)

Middle Life

b)

Ancient Life

c)

Recent Life

d)

None of the above

6.

What is a preserved remain?

a)

A animal that was turned to stone.

b)

An animal that was protected in tar, amber, etc.

c)

Extinct

7.

What is the fossil record?

a)

The fossil record reveals changes in organisms and shows fossils from different time periods.

b)

Igneous rock that disturbs the rock layers.

c)

The big events and time periods that have happened during time.

8.

What is a "Carbon Film?"

a)

A sticky substance coming from a maple tree, trapping an organism inside.

b)

An outline of a fossil. It compresses, leaving only a film.

c)

None of the above.

9.

What is evolution?

a)

An outline of a fossil. It compresses, leaving only a film.

b)

The history of all fossils.

c)

When a species gets updated and gets more data.

d)

Recent Life

e)

Ancient Life

10.

What is an extrusion?

a)

Magma that hardens on the surface of a layer.

b)

Magma that hardens on the inside of a layer, younger than the layer next to it.

c)

None of the above

11.

Click on some examples of Divisions of Geologic time.

a)

eon

b)

Triassic

c)

era

d)

Jurassic

e)

period

12.

What is the "Cenozoic Era?"

a)

Recent Life

b)

Ancient Life

c)

Middle Life

d)

None of the above

13.

A fossil of which structures were replaced by minerals.

a)

Index Fossil

b)

Petrified Fossil

c)

Carbon film

d)

Extrusion

14.

What is extinct?

a)

A species that is gone forever because all have passed away.

b)

A sticky substance coming from a maple tree, trapping an organism inside.

c)

When a species gets updated and gets more data.

15.

What is an intrusion?

a)

Magma that hardens on the inside of a layer, younger than the layer next to it.

b)

Magma that hardens on the surface of a layer.

c)

Finds the relative age of rock layers.

d)

Remains of an animal that have turned to stone.

16.

What is a cast?

a)

Minerals that fill the inside of a mold.

b)

A hollow replica of a fossil.

c)

Magma that hardens on the inside of a layer, younger than the layer next to it.

d)

Remains of an animal that have turned to stone.

17.

What is relative age?

a)

Magma that hardens on the surface of a layer.

b)

Magma that hardens on the inside of a layer, younger than the layer next to it.

c)

The age of a rock related to the rocks around it.

d)

The actual age of a rock known by being measured.

18.

What is a fault?

a)

Magma that hardens on the surface of a layer.

b)

Magma that hardens on the inside of a layer, younger than the layer next to it.

c)

A fracture between 2 blocks of rock moving relative next to each other.

d)

When a species gets updated and gets more data.

19.

What happened when Earth was created?

a)

Magma that hardened on the surface of a layer.

b)

Pieces of rock formed together to make the planet.

c)

Magma hardened on the inside of a layer.

20.

What is a mold?

a)

A hollow replica of a fossil.

b)

A fracture between 2 blocks of rock moving relative next to each other.

c)

Magma that hardens on the inside of a layer, younger than the layer next to it.

d)

A sticky substance coming from a maple tree, trapping an organism inside.

21.

What is absolute age?

a)

The actual age of a rock known by being measured.

b)

The age of a rock related to the rocks around it.

c)

A fracture between 2 blocks of rock moving relative next to each other.

d)

Magma that hardens on the inside of a layer, younger than the layer next to it.

22.

What's a index fossil?

a)

A fossil used to tell geologic periods. Has to be disturbed.

b)

Remains of an animal that have turned to stone.

c)

An animal that was protected in tar, amber, etc.

d)

An outline of a fossil. It compresses, leaving only a film.

23.

What is the "Paleozoic era?"

a)

Ancient Life

b)

Middle Life

c)

Recent Life

d)

None of the above