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What is a fossil?
a) a type of rock
b) preserved remains of ancient life
c) a form of sediment
d) living organisms

Which of the following is a trace fossil?
a) tooth
b) petrified wood
c) hardened bone
d) footprint

Process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces
a) sedimentation
b) erosion
c) weathering
d) fossilization

One type of process that brings fossils to the Earth's surface is
a) sedimentation
b) uplifting
c) fossilization
d) preservation

Which of the following is an example of a body fossil?
a) frozen mammoth
b) tooth bite
c) footprint
d) none of the above

The process of sediments building up to bury an organism
a) superposition
b) burial
c) uplift
d) sedimentation

What are two types of fossils?
a) footprint and tooth bite fossils
b) sedimentary and igneous fossils
c) body and trace fossils
d) strike and dip slip fossils

Pieces of rock and sand are called
a) sedimental
b) sedimentation
c) sedimentary
d) sediments

Type of fault where plates move horizontally past each other
a) strike-slip fault
b) no one's fault
c) dip-slip fault
d) everyone's fault

Type of fault where plates move vertically
a) dip slip fault
b) your fault
c) san andreas fault
d) strike slip fault

When two tectonic plates push into each other, what process can occur?
a) folding
b) following
c) faultless
d) facting

Which parts of an organism are more likely to become fossilized?
a) soft parts of organism
b) hard parts of organism
c) only teeth
d) only hair

Determining the relative age of a fossil can be done using what law?
a) Law of Relativity
b) Law of Superposition
c) Law of Radioactive Dating
d) Law of Superfossilization

Using the Law of Superposition, older fossils will be found
a) deeper in the ground
b) closer to the surface
c) neither deeper in the ground nor closer to the surface
d) both deeper in the ground and closer to the surface

Process that washes away broken down rock particles
a) fossilization
b) weathering
c) erosion
d) sedimentation

Type of method used to determine the accurate age of fossils
a) absolute dating
b) teenage dating
c) relative dating
d) iheartradio dating

A large slab of crust on the Earth's surface is called a
a) titanic plate
b) titanium plate
c) technographic plate
d) tectonic plate

A force from below that can bring fossils closer to the surface is called
a) upfaulting
b) upsetting
c) uplifting
d) upchucking

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