Reading fossils

Some types of fossils look different from other fossil types

• True

• False

Some animal fossils do not look like fossils

• True

• False

Some fossils can be very hard to identify by type

• True

• False

Carbonized fossil of a fish skeleton would look very much like a mold fossil of a fish

• True

• False

To determine means to decide or figure out

• True

• False

When numbers are compared, ........ animal fossils have been found than those of plants

• more

• less

Recently, fossils of tiny ......... have been found in Sayreville, New Jersey

• dinosaurs

• flowers

• clams

Petrified wood comes from ........

• seed-bearing plants

• ferns

Few fossils are found from this group

• one-celled animals

• mammals

There are few mushroom fossils because ......

• there were too few in number

• their bodies were too soft to preserved