Fossils and Geologic Time Test

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Quiz over fossil formation and geological time periods
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Questão 1

Questão
Which of the following is least likely to become a fossil? (Won't become fossilized)
Responda
  • bones
  • skin
  • teeth
  • shells

Questão 2

Questão
The type of fossil where all minerals replace all or part of an organism.
Responda
  • petrified fossil
  • trace fossil
  • pseudofossil
  • bone

Questão 3

Questão
Where were fossils containing FRESHWATER fish formed?
Responda
  • deep in ocean water
  • in a hot spring
  • in an underground reservoir
  • in a lake

Questão 4

Questão
Fossils found in the top layer of rock are the ___________________.
Responda
  • youngest
  • cleanest
  • oldest
  • dirtiest

Questão 5

Questão
What can cause mass extinction?
Responda
  • disease and/or starvation
  • asteroids
  • climate changes
  • all of the above

Questão 6

Questão
Which is most likely to contain fossils?
Responda
  • igneous rock
  • sedimentary rock
  • metamorphic rock
  • native minerals

Questão 7

Questão
What are the preserved remains, traces, or evidence of once living organisms called?
Responda
  • plants
  • rocks
  • fossils
  • invertebrates

Questão 8

Questão
Hardened tree sap that preserves the remains of an insect is called _______________
Responda
  • a mold fossil
  • a cast fossil
  • a tar fossil
  • fossilized amber

Questão 9

Questão
What happened during the Cambrian Explosion?
Responda
  • the supercontinent broke apart
  • an asteroid collided with Earth
  • a great number of different organisms evolved
  • mammals spread into every environment on Earth

Questão 10

Questão
What do we call scientist who study organisms that lived long ago?
Responda
  • meteorologists
  • biologists
  • paleontologists
  • archaeologists

Questão 11

Questão
A fossil that dissolves and leaves a hollow area is called _______________.
Responda
  • amber
  • cast
  • a mold
  • trace fossil

Questão 12

Questão
An insect preserved in amber and a tree that has turned to stone are examples of:
Responda
  • reconstructions
  • fossils
  • restorations
  • sap

Questão 13

Questão
What do you call a fossil that helps determine the age of the rock layer?
Responda
  • an index fossil
  • an hourglass fossil
  • a radioactive fossil
  • a cast fossil

Questão 14

Questão
Which animal is an invertebrate?
Responda
  • frog
  • fish
  • snake
  • insect

Questão 15

Questão
What is formed when minerals seep or fill in a mold?
Responda
  • mold
  • cast
  • coal
  • granite

Questão 16

Questão
What do you call the change in a species over time?
Responda
  • geologic scale
  • relative age
  • elevation
  • evolution

Questão 17

Questão
Fossils provide evidence for all of the following EXCEPT for:
Responda
  • changes in Earth's surface
  • how Earth originally formed
  • how Earth's environments have changed over time
  • how groups of organisms have changed over time

Questão 18

Questão
What will happen to a species that does NOT have the traits needed to survive?
Responda
  • learn
  • become extinct
  • adapt
  • reproduce

Questão 19

Questão
Why do scientists think the dinosaurs became extinct?
Responda
  • too much rain
  • human influence
  • new predators killed the dinosaurs
  • meteorite/asteroid hit the Earth

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