Formation of Fossils

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What types of rocks contain fossils?

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Why are sedimentary rocks the only rock type to contain fossils?

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What are fossils? What do they tell us about the process of evolution?

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How Are Fossils Evidence Of Evolution?

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What is paleontology?

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How are Fossils older than 60000 years dated?

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Name one living fossil.

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Study of fossils is known as anthropology.

1. True

2. False

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What information do fossils provide paleontologists?

Q. ___________ is the scientific study of the geological past based on the fossils of plants and animals.

1. Paleontology
2. Immunology
3. Cytology
4. Microbiology

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Fossils are common in which type of rocks?

1. Igneous

2. Metamorphic

3. Sedimentary

4. Mudrock

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Fossil evidence in evolutionary studies explains that:

1. life is old and has changed over time

2. humans existed before plants

3. cells and tissues evolved from primitive organs

4. organic evolution took place before chemical evolution

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Fossils are common in which type of rocks?

1. Sedimentary

2. Igneous

3. Metamorphic

4. Mudrock

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Which of the following is a fossil?

1. Plant leaves

2. Skull of a Dinosaur

3. Broken teeth

4. Both Skull of a Dinosaur and Broken teeth

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Give one word/technical term for the following:

Any one method is used for the estimation of the age of the fossil.---------------------

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Fossil evidence in evolutionary studies explains that:

1. humans existed before plants

2. cells and tissues evolved from primitive organs

3. life is old and has changed over time

4. organic evolution took place before chemical evolution