Habitats, Fossils, & Environments Over Time
You take a trip to the local quarry. You walk all the way to the very bottom. At the bottom of the quarry you find the fossils of a fish, a sea turtle, and a starfish. What kind of habitat do you think was in this location when these animals were alive?
What is an ocean?
Scientists have evidence that makes them think that dinosaurs looked like big reptiles on the outside.
What is scales?
A type of animal that lived long ago that shares traits with modern birds and reptiles.
What is a dinosaur?
A habitat that is large area of salt water.
What is an ocean?
The hard parts inside many animals that help give their bodies shape.
What is bones?
Kayla went swimming so she could see sharks and sea turtles. When she started swimming, she saw many tree trunks on the ocean floor. What kind of habitat do you think was in this location a long time ago?
What is a forest?
An animal that eats other animals for food and has sharp pointy teeth.
What is a carnivore?
The remains of a plant or animal that lived a very, very long time ago.
What is a fossil?
A habitat that is usually hot and that gets very little rain.
What is a desert?
When a type of living thing no longer exists.
What is extinct?
Scientists found a whale fossil in the middle of the desert because…
What is the desert habitat used to be an ocean?
An animal that eats only plants and has flat front teeth.
What is an herbivore?
To describe something using numbers that can be compared.
What is measure?
A habitat with lots of trees.
What is a forest?
A scientist who studies fossils skeleton all of the bones of an animal.
What is a paleontologist?
A polar habitat today was always a polar habitat in the past. True or false.
What is false?
An animal that eats both plants and other animals and has sharp, pointy teeth and flat teeth.
What is an omnivore?
A type of fossil that shows an animal or plant was once there, such as footprints.
What is a trace fossil?
A habitat with mostly grasses and very few trees.
What is a grassland?
All the bones of an animal.
What is a skeleton?
When habitats change, the kinds of animals and plants that live there change, too. True or false.
What is true?
Scientists know what dinosaurs ate because of their...
What are skulls, more specifically their teeth?
Something you can observe about a living thing, such as the broad fins of a fish.
What is a trait?
A habitat that is very cold.
What is a polar?