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title: Fossils: how we know about life long ago — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Biology
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 74 «Fossils: how we know about life long ago» 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.
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# Fossils: how we know about life long ago

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The 15 questions of lesson 74 «Fossils: how we know about life long ago» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with their options, 77 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/74-fossils-life-long-ago/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t1/) — «saw in a film you can clone dinos from a mosquito in amber, so when's the zoo opening» What is right? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t2/) — In a cartoon, cavemen ride a dinosaur to work. What do fossils tell us? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t3/) — «found a shell fossil on a mountain, so the flood must've covered the mountains» How could a scientist test other ideas? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t4/) — «just gonna climb up the cliff, best fossils are up top» What is the best answer? — wrong ✗
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t5/) — What would happen to a dead fish lying on a dry beach for a week? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t6/) — «that shiny brown stone's just a rock, why's it in a museum» What could it be? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t7/) — «Sue the T. rex is a girl, the name says so» What is right? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t8/) — A fossil lies in a low rock layer and another in a high layer of the same cliff. Which is probably older? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t9/) — «mammoths died out way before the pyramids, obvs» What is right? — right ✓
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t10/) — «found a huge shark tooth on the beach, so there's a giant shark here now» What is right? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/t11/) — Why is a nearly complete skeleton like Sue so rare? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/e1/) — Identify the principal process by which the majority of fossils are formed. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/e2/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the contribution of Mary Anning. — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the relative age of strata in an undisturbed sequence of rock? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/biology/74-fossils-life-long-ago/e4/) — Ascertain the reason for which the cloning of dinosaurs from insects preserved in amber is not possible. — wrong ✗ · exam

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