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

They can be buried quickly in sand and mud.

They love to become fossils.

There are more animals that live in water.

They have bones.

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Dinosaurs became extinct around...

65 hundred years ago

65 thousand years ago

65 million years ago

65 billion year ago

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

Trace fossils

Trackicles

Dendrites

Stalagtites

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Can you name this type of coiled fossil?

Trilobite

Ammonite

Dendrite

Crinoid

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

Fossilology

Geology

Paleontology

Archeology

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

Tree

Oyster

Sheep

Jellyfish

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The most common thing to become fossilized are...

Skin

Hearts

Skulls

Hard parts

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Can you name this type of fossil?

Ammonite

Crinoid

Trilobite

Dendrite

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

Explusion

Extinction

Engandered

Deathuous

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

Trilobite

Dendrite

Ammonite

Crinoid

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