Fossils Unit Test Review Question Preview (ID: 34944)

a) Both simple and complex organisms.

b) Only organisms that are alive today.

c) Organisms are more complex than those alive today.

d) Organisms that are simpler than those alive today.

a) Every animal of the same type die.

b) Used to help relative date fossils.

c) Every single animal of many types die.

d) All organisms that have been found on Earth as fossils.

a) Be buried in fine sediment and make an imprint before decomposing.

b) Be buried in coarse sediment and decompose quickly.

c) Be weathered and eroded into sediment.

d) Have hard tissues and be burned.

a) trails

b) tracks

c) burrows

d) ribs

a) Index fossils are extinct today.

b) Index fossils are widely distributed.

c) Index fossils are found in a few locations around the world.

d) Index fossils lived for a relatively short period of time.

a) Snail because it is a small animal.

b) Jellyfish because it is made of soft body parts.

c) Snail because it has a hard shell and can be buried in sediment.

d) Jellyfish because it is found in and near water.

a) skull

b) skeleton

c) Nests

d) plant imprint

a) Every single animal of many types die.

b) Puts organisms in order of age.

c) Used to help relative date fossils.

d) Every animal of the same type die.

a) Are any imprint of an animal activity from the past.

b) All organisms that have been found on Earth as fossils.

c) Finds exact age of organisms.

d) Puts organisms in order of age.

a) Used to help relative date fossils.

b) All organisms that have been found on Earth as fossils.

c) States that the older fossils are found deeper in the ground if layers are undisturbed.

d) Every single animal of many types die

a) All organisms that have been found on Earth as fossils.

b) Every single animal of many types die.

c) States that the older fossils are found deeper in the ground if layers are undisturbed.

d) Used to help relative date fossils.

a) States that the older fossils are found deeper in the ground if layers are undisturbed.

b) Puts organisms in order of age.

c) Every animal of the same type die.

d) Finds exact age of organisms.

a) Used to help relative date fossils.

b) Are any imprint of an animal activity from the past.

c) Are formed from animal bodies or their imprints.

d) Finds exact age of organisms

a) Used to help relative date fossils.

b) Are any imprint of an animal activity from the past.

c) Are formed from animal bodies or their imprints.

d) Finds exact age of organisms.

a) States that the older fossils are found deeper in the ground if layers are undisturbed.

b) Puts organisms in order of age.

c) Every animal of the same type die.

d) Finds exact age of organisms.

a) It is because it's a sedimentary rock.

b) It is coarse sediment to protect the organism.

c) It is made of medium sediment to provide pressure for an imprint.

d) It is made of fine sediment to keep out water carrying oxygen.

a) fast

b) slow

c) quickly

d) medium

a) frozen

b) moved

c) eroded

d) crushed

a) middle, top

b) top, bottom

c) bottom, middle

d) bottom, top

a) A scientist comparing rocks to one another.

b) A scientist is trying to figure out if a fossil is older or younger than another in the fossil record.

c) A scientist uses the radioactive decay of uranium to find the age of a rock.

d) A scientist has a short period of time to figure out the age.