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Fossils quiz

Question 1 of 14

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What is a fossil?

Select one of the following:

  • A living organism

  • The preserved remain of a once living organism

  • The excrement of a dead animal

  • sediment, layers, movement, erosion

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Question 2 of 14

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How do fossils help us?

Select one of the following:

  • Give us clues of how organisms lived long ago.

  • Give us images of the organisms that lived long ago.

  • They don't help in any way.

  • They don't show how evolution has occurred.

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Question 3 of 14

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What are some types of fossil?

Select one of the following:

  • mold and cast, coprolite, and sediment.

  • layers, sediment, and erosion

  • anatomical, fossil and trace.

  • carbon films, petrified fossils, and coprolites.

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Question 4 of 14

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How is a mold formed?

Select one of the following:

  • When layers of sediment accumulate above.

  • When parts of an organism are buried in sediment.

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Question 5 of 14

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How is a cast formed?

Select one of the following:

  • As the result of a mold.

  • When a footprint is left.

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Question 6 of 14

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Petrified fossils mean turn into stone.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 7 of 14

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What is coprolite?

Select one of the following:

  • The excrement of a once living organism.

  • Footprint of an organism buried in sediment.

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Question 8 of 14

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Three examples of a preserved remain are tar, ice, and stone

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 9 of 14

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Trace fossil is not the footprint of an animal left in sediment.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 10 of 14

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What is carbon films?

Select one of the following:

  • carbon remains of an organism buried in sediment.

  • Amber, tar, and ice.

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Question 11 of 14

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The first step of a fossil formation is sediment.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 12 of 14

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Layers of sediment accumulated above the fossil is the 3 step of fossil formation.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 13 of 14

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What happens in the third step?

Select one of the following:

  • an animal is buried in sediment.

  • movement of the Earth push the fossil up.

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Question 14 of 14

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Erosion is the 4 step of a fossil formation.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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