Fossils

What is a paleontologist?

• Scientist that digs

• Scientists that study rocks

• Scientists that study dinosaurs

• Scientists that study fossils of the past

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What can NOT be a fossil?

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What is a fossil?

• A rock

• Dinosaur details

• Clues and imprints of the past

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Fossils can be found in...

• Only dirt

• Ice, the air, water, and dirt

• Ice, water, dirt

• Ice, water, tar, and dirt

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What happens when a group of animals have become extinct?

• Only a few of its members are still living

• All of its members have died

• All of its members move to another place

• The animals can no longer lay eggs

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Which part of an animal might form a fossil?

• Brain

• Eyes

• Bones

• Heart

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How are imprint fossils made?

• Tree sap falling onto a plant and enclosing the plant

• An imprint made by sediment filling a mold and creating the same shape as the once living thing

• An imprint made by the outside of a dead plant or animal when water moves the remains

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The preserved remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago are called

• fossils

• soil

• rocks

• humus

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A paleontologist finds a fossil of a fish on top of a mountain. She can infer that the area was once ___________________________.

• much cooler

• much warmer

• underwater

• a desert

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Which animal is extinct?

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