--- title: Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig… — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 275 «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/) / Fossils: how a living thing turns to s… # Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up The 15 questions of lesson 275 «Fossils: how a living thing turns to stone and how we dig it up» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with their options, 79 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/). - [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t1/) — «found a curly stone on the beach, my nan says it's a snake turned into stone» What is right? — wrong ✗ - [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t2/) — «mate reckons every dinosaur that ever lived turned into a fossil, that's why museums have so many» What is right? — right ✓ - [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t3/) — What would happen to a dead fish lying on the seabed for years without being buried? — wrong ✗ - [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t4/) — Count them: a museum shows 3 fossil footprints of a two-legged dinosaur, each with 3 toes. How many toe marks are there in all? — wrong ✗ - [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t5/) — «found a massive bone sticking out of the cliff, gonna dig it out with dad's hammer» What is best? — right ✓ - [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t6/) — In a cartoon, a dog digs in the garden and finds a whole shiny dinosaur skeleton in one afternoon. What is closer to the truth? — wrong ✗ - [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t7/) — «poo can't be a fossil lol» What is right? — right ✓ - [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t8/) — A man in the 1800s cuts a log of petrified wood and sees rings. What do the rings tell him? — wrong ✗ - [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t9/) — «cyclops were real, they found the skulls» What is closest to the truth? — right ✓ - [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t10/) — «Lucy's just a monkey, right» What is right? — wrong ✗ - [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/t11/) — Count them: a palaeontologist wraps 4 big bones in plaster jackets and 2 more wait for tomorrow. How many big bones need jackets in all? — wrong ✗ - [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/e1/) — Identify the principal condition which renders the fossilisation of an organism more probable. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/e2/) — Which of the following is correctly classified as a trace fossil? — wrong ✗ · exam - [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the collection of fossils from coastal cliffs. — wrong ✗ · exam - [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/275-fossils-how-a-living-thing-turns-to-stone-and-how-we-dig-it-up/e4/) — State the significance of the hips and knees of the specimen designated Lucy. — right ✓ · exam - ← previous: [274. 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