Fossil Layers

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.

• Rock

• Organism

• Fossil

• Genetics

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Most fossils are found in what kind of rock?

• Metamorphic

• Sedimentary

• Igneous

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What do we call a scientist who studies fossils?

• Geologist

• Biologists

• Paleontologist

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Requirements for fossil formation to occur:  quick burial of organism, layers of sediments build up over the organism, and finally it is left for a long period of time.  

• True

• False

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When two rock layers are compared based on their location, and the layer at  the bottom is said to be older than the layer above it, this is an example of...

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

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Type of fossil that forms when organisms are pressed between layers of mud, it hardens, and everything decays and disappears except for a carbon imprint?

• Carbonized Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Petrified Fossil

• Mold Fossil

Type of fossil that forms when a mold is filled with sand or mud, and the shape is filled taking on the shape of the original organism.  It then hardens into rock and takes on the shape of the organism.

• Carbonized Fossil

• Petrified Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Cast Fossil

Fossils provide important evidence of...

• How life and the environment have both changed over time

• How only the environment has changed but life has remained the same over time

• How both the environment and life have remained the same over time

• How climate and weather have remained the same over time

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Which of the fossils is the oldest?

• Trilobite

• Fish

• Plant

• Mammal

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Preserved remains of plants and animals from the remote past are called?

• Sedimentary rocks

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  Radioactive dating

• Decayed organisms

• Fossils

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