8th grade Fossil record

This 10,000 year old fossil was found in Michigan and it is from an animal that is now extinct. The animal that this skull and tusks belong to is a _______.

• Dinosaurs

• Woolly Mammoth

• diversity

• extinct

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The arrangement of things in the order that they occurred

• fossils

• extinct

• mold fossil

• chronological order

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

This is a fossilized insect that was trapped and preserved. What is the hard, yellowish-brown substance called that it is trapped in?

• amber

• casts fossil

• mold fossil

• sediment

the quality or state of having many different forms, types, ideas, etc.

• petrification

• extinction

• diversity

• paleontologist

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The type of fossil that shows an impression of an organism in rock.

• mold fossil

• trace fossil

• sediment

• fossil record

the permanent disappearance of a species from Earth

• sedimentary

  layers

• fossils

• diversity

• extinction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

The type of rock in which fossils are more likely to occur.

• igneous

• sedimentary

• petrified wood

• the bottom layer

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The mineralized remains of organisms and the rock layers in which they are found, showing when and where long-dead organisms lived and how their bodies were structured

• fossil record

• mold fossil

• extintc

• solid remains

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The mineralized remains of organisms, showing how long-dead organisms lived and how their bodies were structured

• casts

• solid rocks

• sediment

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Scientific law that states fossils located in deeper sediment layers are older than ones deposited in layers closer to the surface

• Law of supersposition

• Law of conservation of mass

• Law of inertia

• Law of rock cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4