Rock Layers and Fossils Review

What type of rock are most fossils found in?

• mold

• igneous

• sedimentary

• metamorphic

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What can we learn from studying fossils?

• When plants and animals from the past existed

• that some plants and animals are extinct

• some behaviors of animals from the past

• all of the above

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What type of fossil fills a hole left by an organism?

• cast

• mold

• body

• trace

Where is this fossil found?

• tar pit

• amber

• ice

• sedimentary rock

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Which type of fossil are the clues left by animals, but not the animal itself?

• trace

• mold

• cast

• body

Fossils can NOT tell us

• what dinosaurs ate

• that an area that is land now used to be marine

• how big an organism was

• what the weather was like in the past

If a palenontologist finds the fossil of a fish in an area that is now a desert, the palenontologist learns

• that the fish was brought there by another animal

• that the desert used to be underwater

• in the times of the dinosaurs, fish must have ben able to fly

• this does not give any clues to the past

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Complete skeltons are this type of fossil

• mold

• cast

• body

• trace

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A scientist who studies fossils is a

• geologist

• geographer

• paleontologist

• arthropologist

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Some woolly mammoths have been found completely preserved and fossilized- even the fur! how were these mammoths fossilzed?

• amber

• tar

• ice

• rock

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