Q.1
Which statement below is false?
  • Footprints can become fossils
  • Dinosaurs can become fossils
  • Old coins can become fossils
  • Fish can become fossils
Q.2
All of these are related to the formation of oil or natural gas EXCEPT:
  • Decomposed Animals
  • Decayed Plants
  • Sedimentary Rocks
  • Active Volcanoes
Q.3
Rocks, sand, mud, and other soils are called
  • amber
  • mold/case
  • sediments
Q.4
Fossil Fuels formed over long periods of time after particles in water settled to the sea floor and formed marine mud. What kinds of particles needed to be present in the marine mud in order for fossil fuels to form.
  • Mostly sand and a few small bits of wood
  • Mostly decaying organisms
  • Mostly lava and a few sedimentary rocks
  • Mostly metal minerals
Q.5
Some students made a model to show one of the first steps in the formation of sedimentary rock. The students pour 2 cm of light-colored sand into a clear plastic box. Then they add 1 cm of gravel. Finally, they pour 2 cm of dark-colored sand on top of the gravel. Which characteristic of sedimentary rock does this model best show?
  • Sedimentary rock is made of layers.
  • Sedimentary rock is cemented bits of rock.
  • Sedimentary rock is often limestone.
  • Sedimentary rock is common in Texas.
Q.6
A student creates a model of the formation of fossil fuels by first placing a layer of leaves, representing organic matter, in the bottom of a cup. What step will come next in the model?
  • Pouring water over the leaves to model washing away by rivers.
  • adding sand on top of the leaves to model burial in sediments.
  • Burning the leaves to model the decay of organic matter.
  • Putting the leaves in the freezer to model conditions on top of mountains.
Q.7
Turtles look much like they did millions of years ago. What can we infer about turtle fossils?
  • They did not change over time.
  • The turtle survived the ice age.
  • Turtles went extinct.
  • Turtles were never endangered.
Q.8
What statement is true about fossils?
  • All living organisms leave behind fossils.
  • Fossils show that camels never change.
  • Some living things have not really changed in millions of years.
  • Plant fossils have never changed.
Q.9
What needs to happen FIRST for a fossil to form?
  • A plant or animal must be covered by sediment.
  • A plant or animal must die and decompose.
  • Sediments fill a a mold to form a cast.
  • An earthquake shifts the land up.
Q.10
Which of these animals is extinct?
  • Camel
  • Rhino
  • Red Panda
  • Saber-toothed cat
Q.11
What replaces the wood of a once-living thing to form petrified wood?
  • amber
  • cast
  • mold
  • minerals
Q.12
Why are there a lot of fern fossils?
  • Ferns are hard like bones.
  • Ferns have changed little over time.
  • Ferns were larger than all plants.
  • Most animals ate ferns.
Q.13
How can you make a mold of an ancient seashell?
  • Press the seashell in model clay.
  • Draw the seashell
  • Press the seashell in model clay to make a mold then fill it in.
  • Trace the seashell
Q.14
How are an elephant and a mammoth alike?
  • They are both endangered.
  • They are both extinct.
  • They both have tusks.
  • They both live in a warm climate.
Q.15
Which type of rock are most fossils found?
  • sedimentary rock
  • metamorphic rock
  • igneous rock
  • fossils
Q.16
Which is an imprint fossil?
  • bone
  • a cast
  • an animal track
  • amber fossil
Q.17
Which type of fossil would look just like the body part of a once-living thing?
  • mineral
  • footprint
  • cast
  • petrified wood
Q.18
Why are there more animal fossils than plant fossils?
  • Animals are smaller than plants.
  • Plants have harder bodies than animals.
  • Plans have softer bodies than animals.
  • Animals eat plants.
Q.19
The hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago.
  • fossil
  • extinct
  • endangered
  • minerals
Q.20
Describes a group of living things that are no longer living.
  • fossil
  • extinct
  • endangered
  • dinosaur
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