Starter quiz

  • Which of these pictures show layers?
    • A
      A  ✓
    • B
      B
    • C
      C
    • D
      D  ✓
  • Which of these are fossils?
    • A
      A
    • B
      B  ✓
    • C
      C  ✓
    • D
      D
  • Fossils can tell us about things that lived ...
    • 10 years ago.
    • 100 years ago.
    • 1000 years ago.
    • over 10,000 years ago.  ✓
  • Which of these statements about fossils are correct?
    • All fossils are the remains of dinosaurs.
    • The soft parts of living things don’t usually become fossilised.  ✓
    • All the fossils on Earth have already been discovered.
    • Fossils give us clues about life on Earth long ago.  ✓
  • Rocks that are formed by layers of sediment building up over time are called ______ rocks.
    • 'sedimentary' ✓
  • Starting with the first, order the steps in fossil formation.
    • 1
      An organism dies and sinks to the bottom of the ocean.
    • 2
      The soft parts of the organism decay.
    • 3
      The hard parts of the organism are covered with multiple layers of sediment.
    • 4
      After many years, the hard parts of the animal are replaced by minerals.
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