Facts
What do trace fossils help scientist track?
Animal Activity (How they moved)
The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form as a mold or cast in rock.
FOSSIL
Footprint
Trace fossil
To die out or get wiped out?
Extinct
What do teeth fossils help us understand ?
What animals ate. (MEAT for sharp teeth and rounded teeth for plants)
A fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow or other trace of an animal.
Trace fossil
mammoth frozen under earth's surface
True Form Fossil
Where are most fossils found?
In rock
A scientist who studies living things of the past?
A Paleontologist
Formed when an animals soft tissues or hard parts did not decay over the years because they are trapped in sap that hardens and become amber.
True Form Fossil
The outline of a seashell without filling?
Mold
What are most fossils made of?
bone
To make a trace fossil the animal steps into mud. Once the animal steps the mud is hardened and turned into what?
Rock
This fossil has open space?
mold fossil
The outline of a seashell with filling?
Cast Fossil
What type of rock are most fossils made of?
Sedimentary rock
In a true form fossil the animals tissue never ?
Decay
This fossil does not have open space.
Cast Fossil
An ant stuck in sap and never decays ?
True form fossil
Name the four types of rock?
Trace, mold, True, Cast