WorksheetsFossils
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 13mins
What are special fossils that show geologists how things used to look and help them build a timeline of living history?
Index Fossils
Trace Fossils
Mold Fossils
Which fossilization process leaves behind a dark film on a sedimentary rock?
Petrification
Replacement
Carbonization
Which type of fossilization occurs when a sticky substance from plants captures and preserves an organism?
Permineralization
Mold
Fossil Resin
What type of fossilization results when the whole animal is preserved?
Carbonization
Mold
Ice/Freezing
Which type of rock and fossil dating give the precise age of the rock or fossil?
Geologic Time dating
Absolute dating
Relative dating
Describe the relationship between rocks and fossils found in the same or rock layer.
Which types of structures are most likely to be fossilized?
Soft-bodied structures, such as jellyfish or skin & hair.
Hard-bodied structure, such as teeth and bones
Both hard and soft bodied structures.
What are 3 requirements for an organism to become fossil?
Explain how shell fossils can be found on the tops of mountains.
What does the Fossil Record tell scientists about organisms that lived before?
In what type of rock are fossils most commonly found?
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Igneous
How do fossils support the Theory of Continental Drift (the Earth was one supercontinent)?
They show how ancient fossils of the same animals were found on different continents, so they must have been connected before.
They show how fossils moved because of the tectonic plates.
They show how animals used to live and eat.
Give one example of a trace fossil.
