Vocabulary
Fossil Formation
Learning from Fossils
Georgia Connection
Fast Facts
100
This word 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
The oldest fossils in Georgia can be found in this region.
What is the mountains?
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
Animal fossils are more common than plant fossils because plants have this.
What are softer body parts?
200
By comparing fossils, we can determine that some living things have not done this in millions of years.
What is changed?
200
Coal from Georgia mountains formed from this.
What are the remains of animals that lived long ago?
200
Deeper layers of rock are ___________ than the layers above.
What is older?
300
A scientist who studies the fossil remains of plants and animals is called
What is a paleontologist?
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
Finding these explains why scientists believe southern Georgia was once covered by an ocean.
What are clam fossils, fossil whale bones, and shark teeth?
300
Which of these animals would be LEAST LIKELY to form a fossil: fish, jellyfish, elephant, or bird? Why?
Jellyfish because its body is made up of soft parts.
400
Some animals have been found perfectly preserved in this material?
Ice or volcanic ash
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
If I found a shark tooth in the plains of GA, I could infer that the plains used to be covered in what?
What is ocean water?
400
Why do bones and teeth remain as part of some fossils?
Their parts are hard.
500
when an insect gets stuck in tree sap and the sap hardens
What is amber
500
Describe the steps for a fossil to form in sedimentary rock.
1) soft parts of the animal decompose 2) hard parts of the animal are buried under layers of sediment 3) the bones and sediment turn into rock
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
Coal and oil are examples of this 2 word answer.
What are fossil fuels?
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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