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

 

Can you name this type of fossil?

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

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

Dinosaurs became extinct around...

Can you name this type of coiled fossil?

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

The most common thing to become fossilized are...

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...

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

Fossils Quiz