Fossils

Which is the best fossil evidence to prove that human beings lived long ago?

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• the mountain range was once a desert

• the mountain range was once covered with plants

• the mountain range was once underwater

• the mountain range was once colder

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How can fossils help scientists?

• fossil show that organisms living in environments today depend on each other

• fossils give information on how environments and organisms change over time

• fossils show that all environments have stayed the same over time

• fossils create new types of animals as environments change

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• the grassland supports fish

• the grassland was an ocean a few years ago

• the grassland was possibly an ocean many years ago

• the grassland changes over short periods of time

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Which is an example of a cast fossil?

• the imprint of the wings or a bird on a rock

• teeth of an animal that have turned into stone

• an insect preserved inside amber stone formed by tree sap

• leaf of a plant buried in mud that hardened over time

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A student claims that the environment has changed over time. Which fossil provides the best evidence to support the claim?

• a fossil of shark teeth found in a desert

• a fossil of shark teeth found in the ocean

• a fossil of an organism that is still alive

• a fossil of an organism that is now extinct

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A team of researchers found fossils of plants that are about 58 million years old in the Sonoran desert. These are broad-leaved plants that are ancestors of modern bamboo. What information do the broad-leaved plant fossils provide?

• the desert was once a forest area

• the desert was once covered with ice

• the desert had no flesh-eating animals

• the desert had a river flowing through it

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• diet of an organism before it died

• environment in which the organism lived when it died

• how the organism died

• number of offspring produced by the organism before it died

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