Vocabulary
Comprehension
Comprehension II
Comprehension 3
Analyzing
100
traces or remains of a living thing that died long ago
What is fossils.
100
A living thing dies.
What is what happens when a fossil is first formed.
100
The animal's size.
What is something you can tell from a footprint that an animal made.
100
cast
What is what is formed when mud or minerals fill up a mold.
100
It becomes extinct when all the organisms like it have died.
What is when does a living thing become extinct.
200
A word that describes a living thing that is no longer found on Earth.
What is extinct.
200
Molds are made when material fill up a cast.
What is the difference between molds and casts.
200
The kinds of plants and animals that lived on earth.
What is what scientist can tell from fossils.
200
rhinoceros
What is which animal today is similar to a triceratops.
200
an animal track
What is an imprint fossil.
300
A scientist who studies fossils.
What is paleontologist.
300
Dinosaurs
What is the name of an animal that is extinct.
300
a dinosaur footprint
What is a trace fossil.
300
wood
What is what is petrified wood made of.
300
This animal ate meat.
What is a fossil that has sharp pointed teeth.
400
A fossil used to measure the age of another fossil.
What is a marker fossil.
400
They compare fossils with animals that live today.
What is how scientist know that animals have changed over time.
400
animals
What is which type of fossil is most common.
400
amber
What is what substance can trap an entire fossil.
400
both have tusk
What is an elephant and a wooly mammoth.
500
Layers of the earth that tell the story of long ago.
What is the fossil record.
500
The place is now a sea.
What is something you can infer about a place where fish fossils are found.
500
in sedimentary rocks
What is where are most fossils found.
500
Ice Age
What is areas of earth that were covered by ice.
500
minerals
What is what replaces the wood of a once-living tree to form petrified wood.
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