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3rd grade earth and rocks

3rd grade (Year 4 in England) · 14 questions · Common Core: NGSS.4-ESS2-1, NGSS.3-LS4-1, NGSS.4-ESS1-1 · England: KS2 Y3 Rocks, KS2 Y6 Evolution and inheritance

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Question 1
True or false? Ammonites are still common in today's seas.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 2
A fossil is found in a deep rock layer. Another is found in a layer near the top. Which is probably older?
- A. they are the same age
- B. it is impossible to say anything
- C. the fossil in the deeper layer
- D. the fossil near the top
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Question 3
Fossils of the same kind of fern are found in South America, Africa, India and Antarctica. What is the best explanation?
- A. People carried the fossils around.
- B. The fern swam across the oceans.
- C. Ferns grow in the sea.
- D. These lands were once joined together.
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Question 4
How can you test which rock is hardest?
- A. look at their colour
- B. smell them
- C. try to scratch each with the same object, such as a steel nail
- D. weigh them
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Question 5
Rocks and soils: which statement is NOT true?
- A. Rocks can be compared by hardness and permeability.
- B. All rocks are the same.
- C. Rocks can be natural or made by people, like brick and concrete.
- D. Soil contains bits of rock and organic matter.
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Question 6
How is a woolly mammoth different from an elephant today?
- A. It lived in the sea.
- B. It had thick, long hair and small ears for cold weather.
- C. It had no trunk.
- D. It could fly.
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Question 7
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: ammonite (coiled shell)?
- A. the ginkgo tree
- B. lions and tigers
- C. modern birds
- D. nautilus
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Question 8
True or false? Antarctica was once warm enough for forests.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 9
In how a sea shell becomes a fossil, what happens straight after "a sea creature dies"?
- A. the fossil is found in the rock millions of years later
- B. the sediment slowly turns into rock
- C. layers of sediment cover it
- D. its shell sinks to the sea floor
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Question 10
Is this rock permeable or impermeable: sandstone?
- A. permeable (lets water through)
- B. impermeable (does not let water through)
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Question 11
What does this fossil evidence tell us: fossil fish in rocks on dry land?
- A. there was once a warm, shallow sea
- B. the climate was once icy cold
- C. the land was once warm and wet
- D. there was once a lake or sea there
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Question 12
True or false? Every fossil is of an animal still alive today.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 13
A fossil is found in a deep rock layer. Another is found in a layer near the top. Which is probably older?
- A. the fossil in the deeper layer
- B. the fossil near the top
- C. they are the same age
- D. it is impossible to say anything
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Question 14
Why are fossils most often found in sedimentary rock like sandstone and limestone?
- A. Other rocks are too young.
- B. These rocks are the hottest.
- C. Animals chose to die there.
- D. These rocks form from layers of mud and sand that buried living things gently.

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Answer key: 3rd grade earth and rocks

1. B. False
2. C. the fossil in the deeper layer
3. D. These lands were once joined together.
4. C. try to scratch each with the same object, such as a steel nail
5. B. All rocks are the same.
6. B. It had thick, long hair and small ears for cold weather.
7. D. nautilus
8. A. True
9. D. its shell sinks to the sea floor
10. A. permeable (lets water through)
11. D. there was once a lake or sea there
12. B. False
13. A. the fossil in the deeper layer
14. D. These rocks form from layers of mud and sand that buried living things gently.