Fossil Evidence Quizziz

What is this kind of fossil is pictured here?

• Body Fossil

• Trace Fossil

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Body fossils are the hard part of organism(s); bones, teeth, shells and such. What are trace fossils and what can they tell us?

• Fossils that preserve evidence of activities or different organisms

• Fossils that can trace real good

• Fossils that are similar to body fossils, they just so happen to be the outer "tracing" of the body fossil leftover after extraction

• Fossils that are softer than the hard body fossils

Most fossils can be found in sedimentary rock. True or False?

• True

• False

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The fossil pictured above is an example of which kind of fossil? Body or Trace?

• Body Fossil

• Trace Fossil

This principle, first developed by Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686), called ________________ states that older layers of sediment rock formed first, and were thereby older than more shallow layers of rock.

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Pictured here are ______ that vary in the number of _______

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What is the process used to date most fossils that are 50,000 years or younger?

• Carbon Dating

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

• Fossil Dating