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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
What does "extinct" mean?
- A. It lives only in zoos.
- B. No members of that kind of living thing are alive anywhere.
- C. It is asleep for the winter.
- D. It has moved to another country.
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Question 2
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: Archaeopteryx?
- A. dragonflies today
- B. modern birds
- C. lions and tigers
- D. nautilus
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Question 3
True or false? Dinosaurs and people lived at the same time.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 4
Archaeopteryx fossils show feathers AND teeth. What does this suggest?
- A. Feathers are made of teeth.
- B. Birds are related to reptiles such as dinosaurs.
- C. It was a kind of fish.
- D. Birds have always had teeth.
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Question 5
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: Archaeopteryx?
- A. elephant
- B. lions and tigers
- C. dragonflies today
- D. modern birds
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Question 6
True or false? Some fossils look very similar to plants and animals alive today.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 7
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 had no trunk.
- D. It could fly.
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Question 8
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: giant prehistoric dragonfly (Meganeura)?
- A. lions and tigers
- B. dragonflies today
- C. elephant
- D. nautilus
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Question 9
True or false? Woolly mammoths were close relatives of elephants.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 10
How is a woolly mammoth different from an elephant today?
- A. It could fly.
- B. It lived in the sea.
- C. It had thick, long hair and small ears for cold weather.
- D. It had no trunk.
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Question 11
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: Archaeopteryx?
- A. lions and tigers
- B. elephant
- C. modern birds
- D. the ginkgo tree
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Question 12
True or false? Ammonites are still common in today's seas.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 13
Archaeopteryx fossils show feathers AND teeth. What does this suggest?
- A. Birds are related to reptiles such as dinosaurs.
- B. Feathers are made of teeth.
- C. Birds have always had teeth.
- D. It was a kind of fish.
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Question 14
Which living thing is most similar to this fossil: giant prehistoric dragonfly (Meganeura)?
- A. modern birds
- B. lions and tigers
- C. dragonflies today
- D. nautilus
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Question 15
True or false? Dinosaurs and people lived at the same time.
- A. True
- B. False
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Question 16
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. extinct species
- B. dinosaurs
- C. minerals
- D. living fossils

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Answer key: Compare fossils with living plants and animals

1. B. No members of that kind of living thing are alive anywhere.
2. B. modern birds
3. B. False
4. B. Birds are related to reptiles such as dinosaurs.
5. D. modern birds
6. A. True
7. A. It had thick, long hair and small ears for cold weather.
8. B. dragonflies today
9. A. True
10. C. It had thick, long hair and small ears for cold weather.
11. C. modern birds
12. B. False
13. A. Birds are related to reptiles such as dinosaurs.
14. C. dragonflies today
15. B. False
16. D. living fossils