Mystery 1 Where can you find whales in a desert? Quiz

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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What term describes a place where people dig rock out of the ground?
Landfill
Quarry
Fissure
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What are fossils?
Fossils are bones of dead animals
Fossils are the remains of plants & animals that have turned to rock
Fossils are rocks that have turned to bones
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How can you match a newly found fossil with other fossils that you have found?
Compare them by their color, such as brown or green.
Compare them by their weight such as a heavy or light
Compare them by their traits, such as if it has legs or fins
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NGSS.MS-LS4-1
NGSS.MS-LS4-2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
On a fossil dig, you find animals with 4 legs close to the surface. Much deeper you find animals with fins. What does this tell you?
Land animals lived in that area first and then after that, ocean animals lived there.
Ocean animals lived in that area first and then after that, land animals lived there.
Ocean and Land animals lived there at the same time.
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NGSS.MS-LS4-1
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How could you find ocean fossils in the middle of the United States?
People from long ago must have carried them there.
Animals from long ago carried them there for food.
There used to be an ocean over the middle of the United States.
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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4
NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
NGSS.MS-ESS2-3
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
Could an ocean ever become a grassland?
Yes. Scientists think the central United States was an ocean millions of years ago.
Yes. Scientists think central United States was an ocean hundreds of years ago.
No. This is impossible. Oceans cannot turn into a grass field.
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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2
NGSS.MS-LS2-4
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
What is a habitat?
A natural home or environment for plants and animals.
A building, such as a greenhouse.
A time long ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
8.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
2 mins • 1 pt
How do fossils give us clues about habitats?
We can tell what color the animals were based on their fossils.
The traits of the fossils can be compared to the animals that live there today.
Habitats and fossils aren’t connected. We can only guess since it was so long ago.
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