Why do geologists find fossils in sedimentary rock?

Organisms were preserved in the rock over time.

What can we NOT learn from fossils?

Sounds the animals made long ago.

What phrase describes convergent plates?

Plates that move toward each other

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Earth Science: Fossils, Earth Layers, Plate Tectonics

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1
What is the effect of this boundary movement?
Tsunami
Earthquake
Mountains
Volcano
2
How many earthquakes each year are considered "Strong"?
18
1000
120
800
3
Why do geologists find fossils in sedimentary rock?
Heat and Pressure trapped the fossils.
They were pressed there by lava flows.
Only sedimentary rock was around many years ago.
Organisms were preserved in the rock over time.
4
What part of an animal is least likely to form into a fossil?
bones
muscle
teeth
claws
5
What can be determined by the fossils in layer E?
They had wings.
They were poisonous.
They once lived in water.
They are larger than the other animals.
6
Which of these is most likely to form a fossil?
B
D
C
A
7
What can be determined by the fossils in layer G?
They are the oldest.
It is the biggest fossil
They are the youngest.
It is the only fossil that used to be an organism.
8
Which layer is made of hot rocks that move like a conveyor belt?
2
3
1
4
9
Which layer of the Earth has the most heat, pressure, and iron?
4
1
2
3
10
What number on the Richter scale shows when some buildings collapse?
5-6
7-8
2-3
6-7
11
Which layer of the Earth is the crust?
1
4
3
2
12
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge (mountains) are formed by what type of plate boundary?
Strike Slip
Divergent
Convergent
Transform
13
What can we NOT learn from fossils?
Shape of the animals long ago.
Size of animals long ago.
Type of plants that lived long ago.
Sounds the animals made long ago.
14
What kind of rocks are fossils found in?
Sediments
Metamorphic
Sedimentary
Igneous
15
What phrase describes convergent plates?
Plates that move away from each other
Plates that move toward each other
Sliding plates
When two plates separate

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