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Test Description: Fossils
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1) Which of the following is important if an organism is to become a fossil?
A
rapid burial and hard parts
B
slow burial and hard parts
C
slow burial and soft parts
D
rapid burial and soft parts
2) Why would a worm stand a poor chance of being fossilized?
A
Worms have been rare during the geologic past.
B
Worms did not exist in the geologic past.
C
none of these
D
Worms have no hard parts.
3) Which of the following must be true for a fossil organism to be useful as an index fossil?
A
all of these
B
The fossil organism must be limited to a short span of geologic time.
C
The fossil organism must be abundant.
D
The fossil organism must be widespread geographically.
4) Which of the following environments would most likely NOT contain fossils?
A
sediment deposited in a riverbed
B
a thick deposit of dried mud
C
layers of sand that accumulate over thousands of years
D
intrusive rock formed from cooled magma
5) The footprints of a dinosaur are an example of what type of fossil?
A
carbonized remains
B
trace fossil
C
unaltered remains
D
mold
6) What determines the type of fossil that is formed?
A
the conditions under which the organism died and how it was buried
B
the conditions under which the organism lived and how it was buried
C
the conditions under which the organism died and how it lived
D
the conditions under which the organism was metamorphosed and how it was buried
7) In which of the following environments would the shell of an organism most likely be preserved as a fossil?
A
at the bottom of a lake buried by a landslide
B
on the banks of a dry river bed
C
on the top of a hill
D
on a beach
8) Using fossils to match up rocks of similar ages in different areas is called ____.
A
succession
B
correlation
C
geology
D
fossilization
9) Fossils are the ____.
A
remains or traces of prehistoric life
B
oldest layers of rock in a region
C
objects that people of long ago left behind as artifacts
D
living creatures with habitats in or around rock
10) Petrified wood is an example of what type of fossil?
A
altered remains
B
trace fossil
C
cast
D
unaltered remains
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