5th Grade - SCIENCE - Chapter 2

Question 1

This is the scientific study of fossils.

Answer 1

paleontology

Question 2

These are people who believed that life on earth developed gradually.

Answer 2

evolutionists

Question 3

These are people who believe that God made the earth and all life in six days.

Answer 3

Creationists

Question 4

This occurs when the last of a kind of plant or animals dies.

Answer 4

extinction

Question 5

This is the process of removing fossils from the rock around it.

Answer 5

excavation

Question 6

This is what a paleontologist does before removing a fossil.

Answer 6

photographing the site

Question 7

This is any part or trace of a living organism that is naturally preserved after it dies.

Answer 7

fossil

Question 8

This means to rot away.

Answer 8

decompose

Question 9

Most of the fossils today are clear evidence of ______.

Answer 9

worldwide flood

Question 10

Fossils that are made when bone or wood is replaced by minerals that harden into rock are called ______

Answer 10

petrified fossils

Question 11

Sometimes an organism is pressed into a rock and leaves an imprint, or ______

Answer 11

mold

Question 12

A _____ is formed when sediment fills in the empty space in a mold and produces a copy of the shape of an organism.

Answer 12

cast

Question 13

Plants and animals can be fossilized in a hardened, yellow plant sap called _____.

Answer 13

amber

Question 14

List some things in which fossils can be preserved.

Answer 14

sediment, amber, ice and tar

Question 15

People draw conclusions about fossils based on what they _____ about how the earth begin.

Answer 15

believe

Question 16

People who believe that life on earth developed gradually, or evolved are called _____.

Answer 16

evolutionists

Question 17

People who believed that God spoke and ______ the earth and all forms of life are called _____.

Answer 17

Creationists

Question 18

Creation or evolution:

Layers of rock represent geologic ages, or long periods.

Answer 18

evolution

Question 19

Creation or evolution:

The age of a fossil can be revealed by looking at the layer of rock in which the fossil is found.

Answer 19

evolution

Question 20

Creation or evolution:

The Flood in Genesis 6-8 accounts for the formation of most fossils.

Answer 20

Creation

Question 21

Creation or evolution:

The earth is only thousands of years old.

Answer 21

Creation

Question 22

Creation or evolution:

Life on earth has developed over millions of years.

Answer 22

evolution

Question 23

Creation or evolution:

The earth came into being simply by chance.

Answer 23

evolution

Question 24

Creation or evolution:

Genesis 1 explains the true origin of the earth

Answer 24

Creation

Question 25

Creation or evolution:

Fossils were buried by a sudden catastrophe like the Flood.

Answer 25

Creation

Question 26

Creation or evolution:

Simple organisms gradually evolved into new, complex forms of life.

Answer 26

evolution

Question 27

Creation or evolution:

The position of a fossil in a rock may show how the animal attempted to avoid the Flood’s waters.

Answer 27

Creation

Question 28

A _____ forms when bone or wood is replaced by minerals that harden into rock.

Answer 28

petrified fossil

Question 29

This is a dark image made from plants pressed in rock.

Answer 29

carbon film

Question 30

This is formed when sediment fills in the empty spaced in a mold and makes a copy of the shape of an organism.

Answer 30

cast

Question 31

A _____ forms from something that an organism left behind, such as a footprint, rather than from the organism itself.

Answer 31

trace fossil

Question 32

This is any part or trace of a living organism that is naturally preserved after it dies.

Answer 32

fossil

Question 33

Creation or evolution:

Man and dinosaurs lived on the earth at the same time.

Answer 33

Creation

Question 34

Creation or evolution:

Other animals developed from dinosaurs.

Answer 34

evolution

Question 35

True or False

Carbon dating is very accurate method to determine how old fossils are.

Answer 35

False

Question 36

________ and __________ are two animals mentioned in the Bible that may have been dinosaurs.

Answer 36

Behemoth and Leviathan

Question 37

People draw conclusions about _________ based on what they believe about how the earth began.

Answer 37

fossils

Question 38

True or False

Dinosaur bones have been found only in the eastern parts of the earth.

Answer 38

false