EMS 5th BJU CH 2

one thing scientists CANNOT learn from a fossil is an animal's _______

• body shape

• diet

• behavior

• outward appearance

The process of removing a fossil from the rock and other materials around it is called _______

• extinction

• excavation

• evolution

• decomposition

when the last of a certain plant or animal dies, ________ occurs

• decomposition

• evolution

• extinction

• excavation

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the scientific study of fossils is called ______

• geology

• paleontology

• evolution

• creation

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people who believe that God created the Earth

• paleontologists

• evolutionists

• Creationists

• geologists

people who believe that life on earth evolved

• paleontolgists

• creationists

• evolutionists

• geologists

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when bone or wood is replaced by minerals that harden into rock, a ___________ fossil forms

• imprint

• mold

• cast

• pertrified

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when fine sediment has been pressed into a mold and a copy of the SHAPE of the organism formed, it is called a _______

• mold

• cast

• petrified

• carbon film

a fossil that is not an actual part of an organism but of something that was left behind, such as a foot print

• petrified

• mold

• cast

• trace

a fossil formed when part of a plant or animal decayed underneath the weight of sediment and left an IMAGE of itself on a rock

• mold

• cast

• carbon film

• petrified