WorksheetsFossils
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What type of scientist study fossils and what life was like millions of years ago?
paleontologists
biologists
fosslists
What do paleontologist use to build models and explain what the world was like?
molds
evidence
oceans
Over billions of years, Earth's surface has changed dramatically.
True or False?
true
false
What changes have happened to the Earth over billions of years?
Areas once covered by water are now dry.
Continents have moved.
Areas of the Earth covered by large sheets of ice, now have melted.
All of thesse
Fossils help scientist determine the _______ of rocks.
lava
magma
age
color
How is sedimentary rock formed?
Layers of rock formed by sediments that settled in Earth's oceans, lakes, and swamps
In the snow
From tree roots and rocks.
Petrified wood is ______________.
A newly planted tree.
A tree fossil showing the wood grain and rings in the wood.
A frozen tree.
Why are fossils so important to scientists?
They help scientists explain what the world was like millions of years ago.
They teach them about the future.
They are not really that important to scientists.
A type of fossil that forms the exact replica of the original organizm.
extinct
endangered
cast
crust
All the fossils on Earth make up the __________.
fossil diaries
fossil record
fossil evidence
