5th Grade - SCIENCE - Chapter 2 quiz AM 28 & 32

Question 1

The scientific study of fossils

Answer 1

paleontology

Question 2

The process of removing a fossil form the rock and other material around it is called

Answer 2

excavation

Question 3

Creation or Evolution:

Fossils were buried by a sudden catastrophe like the Flood.

Answer 3

Creation

Question 4

Creation or Evolution:

SImple Organisms gradually evolved into new, complex forms of life.

Answer 4

Evolution

Question 5

Creation or Evolution:

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

Answer 5

Creation

Question 6

List two things a scientist cannot know for sure from the skeleton of an animal

Answer 6

its muscles and outward appearance

Question 7

In what way does the outward appearance of modern animals help paleontologists?

Answer 7

Their outward appearance helps scientists to make guesses about what an extinct animal might have looked like

Question 8

What is one problem with using carbon dating to date fossils?

Answer 8

Carbon dating cannot give an exact date. It can only estimate how many thousands of years old a fossils is.

Question 9

The word dinosaur comes form the words meaning ________

Answer 9

terrible lizard

Question 10

We know that dinosaurs lived in many difference place because dinosaur bones have been found _______

Answer 10

all over the world

Question 11

Paleontologists can make good guesses about the appearance of a dinosaur by looking at its ________

Answer 11

skeleton

Question 12

The behemoth, Leviathan, dragons, and flying serpents described in the Bible may have been ______

Answer 12

dinosaurs

Question 13

____ occurs when the last of a certain plant or animal dies.

Answer 13

extinction

Question 14

Extinction for many plants and animals can be caused by ______, lack of _______, or changes in the _________.

Answer 14

disease
lack of food
changes in the weather/atmosphere

Question 15

Creation or Evolution:

BIrds developed from dinosaurs

Answer 15

Evolution

Question 16

Creation or Evolution:

Dinosaurs and man lived at the same time.

Answer 16

Creation

Question 17

Creation or Evolution:

Most animals outside of the ark were destroyed by the Flood

Answer 17

creation

Question 18

What are two things that fossils may tell us about dinosaurs?

Answer 18

appearance, diet, and behavior

Question 19

How do we know that dinosaurs and man lived at the same time?

Answer 19

The Bible tells us that on the fifth and sixth days of Creation God created man and all of the land and sea animals.

Question 20

What is the first step in excavating a fossil?

Answer 20

Photograph the site

Question 21

Number the basic steps of excavating a fossil:

• Excavate, or remove, the fossils
• Make a detailed map of the site
• Photograph the site
• Number the individual bones
• Wrap the bones to keep them from breaking

Answer 21

3 - Excavate, or remove, the fossils
2 - Make a detailed map of the site
1 - Photograph the site
4 - Number the individual bones
5 - Wrap the bones to keep them from breaking