Types of Fossils
Organism parts completely replaced by minerals.
What are petrified
Q: Believers that God created life in 6 literal days.
What are cxreationists
Secular belief that life developed over millions of years.
What is evolution
The process of removing a fossil from surrounding rock.
What is excavation
When the last of a specific plant or animal species dies out.
What is extinction
Hardened plant sap that seals small animals inside.
What is sap
The catastrophic event that formed most fossils.
What is The Genesis Flood
Worldview claiming modern birds evolved from dinosaurs.
What is an Evolutionist
The first step taken before bones are physically dug out.
What is mapping
True or False: Dinosaur bones are only found in the East.
What is false (they are found everywhere)
An imprint left by an organism pressed into a rock.
What is a mold.
Soil layer interpretation for floodwater avoidance.
What is a Creationist
Scientific dating method based purely on rock layer depth.
What is an Evolutionist
This is done to bones so they do not break during transit.
What is wrapping them.
One aesthetic feature scientists cannot verify from skeletons.
What is the outward appearance (skin/color)
An imprint left by an organism pressed into a rock.
What is a cast
What a Creationist believes the Earth's true age is.
What is thousands of years old.
Scientists who draw secular conclusions about prehistoric life.
What are Paleontologists
This is done to individual bones so they don't get mixed up.
What is numbering them
A dark, thin image left behind by a decaying leaf on a rock.
What is carbon film.
Animal track, footprint, or droppings left in mud.
What is a cast
This biological discovery inside dinosaur bones challenges old timelines.
What is soft tissue (or red blood cells)
The slow process of life changing gradually over long eras.
What is evolving
Material type where most fossils are successfully preserved.
What is sedimentary rock
True or False: Permanently frozen soil is called amber.
What is false (permafrost)