Fossils Quiz

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

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The most common thing to become fossilized are...

Hearts

Hard parts

Skulls

Skin

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

Tree

Oyster

Jellyfish

Sheep

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

Engandered

Explusion

Extinction

Deathuous

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

Trace fossils

Trackicles

Stalagtites

Dendrites

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

Geology

Fossilology

Archeology

Paleontology

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

Ammonite

Trilobite

Dendrite

Crinoid

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Dinosaurs became extinct around...

65 million years ago

65 thousand years ago

65 billion year ago

65 hundred years ago

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Can you name this type of coiled fossil?

Dendrite

Trilobite

Crinoid

Ammonite

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Can you name this type of fossil?

Trilobite

Crinoid

Dendrite

Ammonite

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

They have bones.

They love to become fossils.

They can be buried quickly in sand and mud.

There are more animals that live in water.

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