Unit 4 Fossils Review

Were the fossils in Layer 4 formed from plants or animals or both?

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• plants

• animals

• both

• neither, there are no fossils

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What part of a fish would MOST LIKELY form a fossil?

• Its scales
• Its teeth
• Its eyes
• Its nerves

Which of the following groups is extinct?

• Dinosaurs
• Insects
• Plants
• Fish

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Which type of fossils is most common?

• Animal
• Amber
• Minerals
• Plants

Which of these is something that you could find out if you studied fossils?

• The color of the animals
• What color eggs the animal laid
• The exact age of the animal
• How many legs the animal walked on

Fossils are usually found in ______________.

• Rocks
• Minerals
• Crystals
• Water

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The wooly mammoth, an extinct animal, looked MOST like today's ____________.

• Dogs
• Elephant
• Horse
• Sheep

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Fossils help us learn about ___________.

• Outer space
• Life in the past
• The weather
• Earthquakes

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Which of these is a fossil?

• A large fish
• A dinosaur bone
• A young tree
• A mouse

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Sometimes fossil bones are found lying at the top of the sand in the desert. This tells us that __________________________.

• Wind blew away the sand that covered the fossils.
• Fossils are lighter than sand, so they floated to the top