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Compare fossils with living plants and animals

3rd grade (Year 4 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: NGSS.3-LS4-1 · England: KS2 Y6 Evolution and inheritance, KS2 Y3 Rocks

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Question 1
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: Archaeopteryx?
- A. lions and tigers
- B. dragonflies today
- C. nautilus
- D. modern birds
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Question 2
True or false? Woolly mammoths were close relatives of elephants.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 3
What does "extinct" mean?
- A. It lives only in zoos.
- B. It has moved to another country.
- C. It is asleep for the winter.
- D. No members of that kind of living thing are alive anywhere.
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Question 4
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: ammonite (coiled shell)?
- A. elephant
- B. nautilus
- C. modern birds
- D. lions and tigers
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Question 5
True or false? Comparing fossils with living things helps show how life has changed.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 6
What does "extinct" mean?
- A. It lives only in zoos.
- B. It has moved to another country.
- C. No members of that kind of living thing are alive anywhere.
- D. It is asleep for the winter.
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Question 7
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: ammonite (coiled shell)?
- A. elephant
- B. nautilus
- C. modern birds
- D. lions and tigers
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Question 8
True or false? Comparing fossils with living things helps show how life has changed.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 9
Some living things, like horseshoe crabs and ginkgo trees, look almost the same as fossils millions of years old. What are they sometimes called?
- A. living fossils
- B. dinosaurs
- C. extinct species
- D. minerals
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Question 10
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: woolly mammoth?
- A. elephant
- B. dragonflies today
- C. nautilus
- D. lions and tigers
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Question 11
True or false? Comparing fossils with living things helps show how life has changed.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 12
How is a woolly mammoth different from an elephant today?
- A. It had thick, long hair and small ears for cold weather.
- B. It lived in the sea.
- C. It could fly.
- D. It had no trunk.
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Question 13
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: giant prehistoric dragonfly (Meganeura)?
- A. modern birds
- B. the ginkgo tree
- C. dragonflies today
- D. elephant
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Question 14
True or false? Woolly mammoths were close relatives of elephants.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 15
What does "extinct" mean?
- A. It lives only in zoos.
- B. It has moved to another country.
- C. No members of that kind of living thing are alive anywhere.
- D. It is asleep for the winter.
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Question 16
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: woolly mammoth?
- A. nautilus
- B. the ginkgo tree
- C. elephant
- D. modern birds

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