Quiz 1 (Paleontology)

What do paleontologists study?

• space
• fossils
• atmosphere
• weather

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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To maintain something in its original or existing state is to ?

• sediment

• organism

• preserve

• fossil

What is an individual plant or animal ?

• organism

• mammal

• ancestors

• cave man

If something no longer exist it is extinct.

• True

• False

What do you call any evidence of a organism that lived in the past?

• ancestors

• fossils

• organisms

• extinct

What do you call matter that settles at the bottom of a liquid?

• fossils

• pulp

• sediments

• organisms

What is formed when a mold is filled in?

• ice

• trace

• cast

• fossils

Fossils of the actual animal or animal part are its ?

• mold

• cast

• true form

• extinct

This represents activities that happened when the organism was alive; tooth marks, eggshells, footprints

• mold

• cast

• trace

• true form

This is a fossilized impression; a negative image of the organism

• mold

• trace

• cast

• true form