Fossils Under Our Feet: teacher key

Fossils, grade 1 edition, written for 1st grade. Fossils are what is left of plants and animals from long ago. See what can become a fossil and where we find them.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What is amber?
   • Tree sap that turned hard and old (answer)
   • A kind of bone
   • A print of a foot
2. What can amber hold?
   • Whales and sharks
   • Ants and flies (answer)
   • Cats and dogs
3. What do we find to know a dinosaur lived?
   • Its toys
   • Its hats
   • Its fossils (answer)
4. Mia finds the shape of a bone in a rock. What is it most likely to be?
   • A fossil (answer)
   • A toy
   • A seed
5. What does sap mean?
   • Tree juice (answer)
   • Sea water
   • Hard rock

Words

• amber: old tree sap
• sap: tree juice