Topic 6 Test - Fossils

________ is when you step in something and leave a footprint

• imprinting

• trace fossil

• fossil

Rocks, sand, mud, and other soils are called

• amber

• mold/case

• sediments

A scientist who studies fossil is called a

• psychiatrist

• physical education teacher

• paleontologist

________ is a fossil imprint made by the outside of a dead plant or animal. This fossil can be formed when sediments or minerals fill a mold, it takes on the same outside shape as the living thing.

• True Fossil

• Mold/Cast

• Trace Fossil

_________ is the preserved remains of an animal, plant, or organism from the past.

• Imprinting

• Mold/Cast

• Fossil

Fossils help us learn about....

• What animals were like long ago

• How the earth's surface has changed

• what the environment was like

• All of these

A scientist that studies fossils is called a

• Digologist

• Zoologist

• Fossilogist

• Paleontologist

A fish that died a year ago can't be a fossil today. This is because...

• other animals will eat the fish

• fish can't become fossils

• it takes a long time for fossils to form

• fish bones rot and decompose.

Most fossils are covered by sediment. What is sediment made of?

• rocks, sand mud, other soils

• chemicals

• water that stinks

• cement

The preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things...

• clay

• fossils

• igneous rocks

• silt