Q.1
How are Sedimentary Rocks formed?
  • Cooling and Hardening
  • Melting and heating
  • Compacting and Cementing
  • Time
Q.2
How are fossils created?
  • Traces of organisms harden like rock.
  • Dead organisms are quickly buried for millions of years.
  • Animals get trapped.
  • All of the above
Q.3
What are the 3 main fossil fuels?
  • Coal, oil, and vegetable oil.
  • Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas
  • Electricity, Gasoline, Petroleum
  • Coal, Oil, Non-renewable Resources
Q.4
What had to be applied in order to make buried organic matter into fossil fuels?
  • Industrial Pollution
  • Ocean Currents
  • Volcanic Activity
  • Heat and pressure
Q.5
Fossil Fuels form in sedimentary rocks when -
  • plants use the nutrients in the sediments to grow
  • organic matter is buried along with sediments
  • rivers carry sediments down mountainsides
  • sediments are used by humans as a resource
Q.6
Sedimentary rocks form when broken bits of other rock are deposited and then -
  • buried and squeezed and cemented together.
  • melted by the heat of the Earth's core
  • completely dissolved in the salt water of the ocean
  • used by humans as a natural resource
Q.7
Where are most fossils found?
  • In sand dunes
  • In volcanoes
  • In igneous rocks
  • In sedimentary rocks
Q.8
Which of the following substances is not able to preserve entire organisms?
  • sticky tar
  • water
  • amber
  • ice
Q.9
Scientist study the ____________________ to learn about the history of life, past environments on Earth, and how different groups of organisms have changed over time.
  • fossil record
  • animal record
  • historical record
  • Earth record
Q.10
What type of fossils provide evidence of the activities of ancient organisms?
  • molds and casts
  • petrified fossils
  • trace fossils
  • carbon films
Q.11
A solid copy of the shape of an organism is...
  • a fossil record
  • a mold
  • a carbon film
  • a cast
Q.12
The gradual change in living things over time is..
  • transition
  • evolution
  • age
  • revolution
Q.13
Most fossils form when living things die and are buried by _______________ that hardens into rock over time.
  • sediment
  • people
  • cement
  • ants
Q.14
An organism is ______________ if it no longer exits and will never live again on Earth.
  • rare
  • extinct
  • plentiful
  • missing
Q.15
What is an extremely thin coating of carbon on rock?
  • sediment
  • sap
  • tar
  • carbon film
Q.16
A hollow area in sediment in the shape of an organism or part of an organism is.....
  • a cast
  • a mold
  • a trace fossil
  • a petrified fossil
Q.17
A ______________________ is a scientist who studies fossils.
  • biologist
  • chemist
  • paleontologist
  • astronomer
Q.18
Fossils can tell us how organisms communicated with each other.
  • True
  • False
Q.19
Which is NOT a step in the process an organism goes through to become a fossil?
  • Layers of sediment build up on the buried body.
  • A organism dies and is buried quickly.
  • Minerals fill the spaces of the decaying bone.
  • An organism becomes extinct.
Q.20
How do scientists learn about dinosaurs?
  • by studying fossils
  • by reading about them
  • by watching movies
  • by looking at pictures
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