Vocabulary
Fossil Formation
Learning from Fossils
Georgia Connection
Fast Facts
100
describes a group of living things that is no longer living
What is extinct
100

a scientist who studies fossils and organisms that lived long ago

what is a paleontologist 

100
Scientists may learn what an animal ate by looking at the shapes of this fossil item.
What are teeth?
100
Layers of a rock can be used to tell how _________ a fossil is.
What is old?
200

something an animal knows how to do without having to be taught

instinct

200
the hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago
What is a fossil
200
By comparing fossils, we can determine that some living things have not done this in millions of years.
What is changed?
200

Deeper layers of rock are ___________ than the layers above.

What is older?

300
Scientists compare animal fossils to similar animals that are alive today. For example the elephant and the mammoth both have these.
What are tusks?
300
These two things that form metamorphic and igneous rock often destroy plant and animal parts before they can form a fossil.
What are temperature and pressure?
400
Fossils are usually found in this type of rock
What is sedimentary?
400
If two fossils are found in the same rock, scientists can infer that these two things did this.
What is lived at the same time?
400
An animal still looks much like it did millions of years ago so we can infer this about a fossil of that animal.
The fossil of the animal will much like the animal that is still living today.
500

organism's ability to blend in with the environment

camouflage

500

living things such as plants and animals

what are organisms

500
By looking at a fossil jawbone you may learn....
What did an animal eat? How old was the animal? Was the animal male or female?
500
We can infer this because there are many fossil imprints of ferns.
Most plants on Earth were once ferns.
500
Suppose a plant and animal die on the same day. Which one will most likely become a fossil? Why?
The animal because it has more hard parts than the plant
M
e
n
u