Vocabulary
The remains or traces of a plant or animal that lived long ago
What is a fossil?
When an insect gets trapped in tree sap
What is amber fossil?
What is the first to to the formation of a fossil?
What is plant or animal dies?
Dinosaur bones are this type of fossil.
What are body fossils?
What is the name of the scientist who studies fossils?
What is paleontologist?
An impression of an organism, formed when sediment hardens around the organism
What is an Mold?
What are footprints
What is a trace fossil?
After the plant or animal dies, what happens next?
Over time, layers of sediment bury the organism.
What is a meteor, volcanic activity, climate change?
Name three tools that paleontologist/ fossil hunters use.
What is hammer, glue, chisel, camera, map etc.
A plant or animal species that is no longer living or in existance.
What is extinction?
This kind of fossils are commonly wood, bones, teeth, or shells.
What are petrified fossils?
After the sediment covers the organism, what happens next?
Millions of years later, the sediment turns to rock.
What is the name of the most complete dinosaur that has ever been found?
What is Sue?
Name two "ingredients" that make fossils.
What is air, water, sediment, time, sap, tar, ice, and pressure.
A model of an organism, formed when sediment fills a mold and hardens
What is a cast?
These are ways to preserve a whole organism as a fossil.
What are amber or ice?
Once the fossil turns to rock, what is the last step?
The rock erodes and the fossils are exposed. Paleontologist then find and study the fossils.
This about when dinosaurs died out.
What is 65 million years ago?
What do fossilized teeth show us?
What the animal ate
The kind of rock that fossils are found in.
What is sedimentary rock?
A type of fossil that has a hollow space
What is mold fossil.
Why do scientists study fossils?
1.) look into ancient past
2.) Study what happened in the past
3.) figure out what past live looked like.
What is the name of the age of dinosaurs?
What is the Mesozoic Era?
What is all over the world?