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fossils

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

a paleontologist is

a)

someone who studies soil

b)

someone who studies the earth

c)

someone who studies fossils

d)

someone who looks for dinosaurs

2.

a paleontologist might find of

a)

skin of dinosaurs

b)

teeth of an extinct organism

c)

hair from a wooly mammoth

d)

pictures of dinosaurs

3.

it takes ______ for a fossil to form

a)

10 days

b)

10 weeks

c)

10 months

d)

10 thousand years

4.

what can a scientist conclude from a fossil dinosaur bone?

a)

how large they were

b)

how good they could see

c)

how long they slept each day

d)

how many babies they have

5.

finding a fossil of a shark on our playground tells us

a)

that a bird dropped it after it died

b)

that at one time our playground was part of the ocean

c)

that sharks lived on our playground

d)

nothing

6.

what best describes a fossil?

a)

skin, teeth and bones of an animal

b)

remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago

c)

an old set of bones

d)

something scientist like to look at

7.

Harper read an article about a shark fossil they found on tybee that was much larger than any sharks living today. what statement is true?

a)

sharks use to be much larger than they are today

b)

sharks are scary

c)

sharks are small

d)

sharks like to eat plants

8.

a imprint of a tropical plant was found in the mountains, what does that tell us?

a)

at one time the mountain area was a tropical climate

b)

tropical plants grow in the mountains

c)

tropical plants like the cold

d)

nothing

9.

what are two examples of what fossilized teeth could tell us?

a)

the animals diet and what type of animal

b)

how old the animal was and where he lived

c)

what he looked like and what he ate

d)

what area they lived in and what they ate

10.

a fossil can be described as

a)

something alive that lived a long time ago

b)

preserved remains of plants that lived long ago

c)

preserved remains of an animal that lived long aog

d)

preserved remains of plants and animals that lived long ago