Fossils quiz

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Quiz on Fossils quiz, created by vega.daniela on 30/05/2015.
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Question 1

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What is a fossil?
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  • A living organism
  • The preserved remain of a once living organism
  • The excrement of a dead animal
  • sediment, layers, movement, erosion

Question 2

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How do fossils help us?
Answer
  • Give us clues of how organisms lived long ago.
  • Give us images of the organisms that lived long ago.
  • They don't help in any way.
  • They don't show how evolution has occurred.

Question 3

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What are some types of fossil?
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  • mold and cast, coprolite, and sediment.
  • layers, sediment, and erosion
  • anatomical, fossil and trace.
  • carbon films, petrified fossils, and coprolites.

Question 4

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How is a mold formed?
Answer
  • When layers of sediment accumulate above.
  • When parts of an organism are buried in sediment.

Question 5

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How is a cast formed?
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  • As the result of a mold.
  • When a footprint is left.

Question 6

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Petrified fossils mean turn into stone.
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  • True
  • False

Question 7

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What is coprolite?
Answer
  • The excrement of a once living organism.
  • Footprint of an organism buried in sediment.

Question 8

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Three examples of a preserved remain are tar, ice, and stone
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  • True
  • False

Question 9

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Trace fossil is not the footprint of an animal left in sediment.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 10

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What is carbon films?
Answer
  • carbon remains of an organism buried in sediment.
  • Amber, tar, and ice.

Question 11

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The first step of a fossil formation is sediment.
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  • True
  • False

Question 12

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Layers of sediment accumulated above the fossil is the 3 step of fossil formation.
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  • True
  • False

Question 13

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What happens in the third step?
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  • an animal is buried in sediment.
  • movement of the Earth push the fossil up.

Question 14

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Erosion is the 4 step of a fossil formation.
Answer
  • True
  • False
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