Science Assessment

Fossils are best used to show evidence of - Marks 2

• the processes that change Earth over time.

• organisms that will live in the future

• plants and animals that lived long ago.

• behaviors of extinct organisms.

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If the overhunting of great white sharks continues, what could happen to the population? Marks 2

• The population will increase.

• The population will stay the same.

• The population will continue to decrease and possibly become extinct.

• The population will decrease a little more, but then begin to increase.

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What parts of living organisms are most likely to become fossils?

• skin

• hard structures like teeth, nails, bones

• soft parts of the body

• eyes.

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To retain characteristics over long periods of time

• Fossil

• Evidence

• Organism

• Preserve

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A living thing is

• Fossil

• Evidence

• Organism

• Nature

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Information that supports an idea

• Fossil

• Evidence

• Organism

• Preserve

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Which fossil would tell us that the area had been covered with trees in the past? Marks 2

• Snail Shell

• Millipede

• Scorpion

• Dragonfly

We can study fossils to learn about what?

• What the weather will be tomorrow

• What plants and animals lived long ago

• How living things need rocks to live

• How a mountain form?

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Describes a group of living things that are no longer living.

• fossil

• extinct

• endangered

• dinosaur

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Choose the causes of extinction.

• pollution

• overhunting

• loss of habitat

• all of the above

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