Vocabulary
Fossil Formation
Learning from Fossils
Ms. Dominique Told You This So Don't Play Around
Fast Facts
100
describes a group of living things that is no longer living
What is extinct
100
in petrified wood, the soft parts of the once-living plant were replaced by this
What are minerals
100
Scientists may learn what an animal ate by looking at the shapes of this fossil item.
What are teeth?
100

How old is Ms. Dominique?

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100

Layers of a rock can be used to tell how _________ a fossil is.

What is old?

200

the hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago

What is a fossil

200
What is the second step in fossilization? 

What is its skin and muscles decompose?

200
By comparing fossils, we can determine that some living things have not done this in millions of years.
What is changed?
200
What is Fossil?

What are the remains of animals that lived long ago.

200
Fossils are made up of 

Rocks and Minerals 

300

the shape of a once-living thing left in sediment; it is a cavity shaped like the plant or animal

What is a mold

300

We do not know what many ancient plants look like because they did this before they could form a fossil.

What is rotted away?

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

What is the fossil type the represents animal foot steps?

What is Trace Fossils

300

How many students does Ms. Dominique teach?

What is 120 students.

400

a scientist that studies fossils to learn about life ling ago

What is a paleontologist? 

400

Can a plant be a fossil?

What is DUH MS. DOMINIQUE?

400

If two fossils are found in the same rock, scientists can infer that these two things did this.

What is they died together?

400

How many Fossil type are there? And what are their names?

Mold, Trace, Cast, and True Form

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

A time before written records

What is Pre-Historic times?

500

What is the third step is fossilization?

What is it's bones soak up in the minerals

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

Can an animal or plant that is not extinct become a fossil? True or False?

TRUE!

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

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