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Here are 10 general questions about fossils.  Provide an answer for each question and then click SUBMIT.

 

Some fossils are just the tracks, paths or burrows of once living things. We call these...

What do we call the study of fossils and ancient life?

This is NOT a fossil at all. What name do we give these?

Can you name this type of fossil?

Dinosaurs became extinct around...

The most common thing to become fossilized are...

What do we call the event in where a animal or plant species completely dies out?

Can you name this type of coiled fossil?

While of the following living things is most likely to become a fossil?

The reason we find lots of fossils of things that lived in water is because...

Fossils Quiz