Unit Assessment

1.     You take a trip to the local quarry. You walk all the way to the very bottom. At the bottom of the quarry, you find the fossils shown in the images above. What kind of habitat do you think was in this location when these animals were alive?

• grassland

• river

• ocean

• desert

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1.     Kayla went swimming so she could see sharks and sea turtles. When she started swimming, she saw many tree trunks on the ocean floor. What kind of habitat do you think was in this location a long time ago?

• forest

• grassland

• ocean

• desert

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Scientists found a whale fossil in the middle of the desert because...

• whales live in the desert habitat.

• whales used to live in the desert habitat.

• there used to be a lake in the middle of the desert habitat.

• the desert habitat used to be an ocean.

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Scientists have found a new fossil! Looking at this fossil, what would you call this animal?

• herbivore

• carnivore

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Wow! Scientists have found another new fossil. Looking at this fossil, what would you call this animal?

• herbivore

• carnivore

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You can tell if someone or something is running because...

• their footprints are getting closer together

• their footprints are getting further apart

• their footprints get larger

• their footprints get smaller

  Which word means the remains of a plant or animal that lived a very, very long time ago?

• evidence

• obsereve

• fossil

• bones

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Which work best describes information that can be used to support an idea?

• evidence

• fossils

• paleontologist

• bones

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We can learn about extinct animals by studying their fossils and comparing them to animals living today.

 

• True

• False

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Fossils are only found on land and not underwater.

• True

• False