Molds, Casts, and other Fossil Funzies
What type of fossil is formed when an imprint of an organism has been pressed into a rock?
Mold fossil
When fossils are removed from rock and other materials around it, what is that called?
Excavation
What are creationists and evolutionists?
Creationists: People who believe life on earth was created by God in six days.
Evolutionists: People who believe life evolved.
Where in the world have dinosaur bones been found?
All over the earth.
What is the scientific study of fossils called?
Paleontology
What fossil is formed when a copy of the shape is made by fine sediment
Cast fossil
What is permafrost?
Permanently frozen soil.
What leads people to draw conclusions about fossils and what they believe?
How they believe the earth began.
Is saying that birds developed from dinosaurs an evolutionists viewpoint or a creationists?
An evolutionists.
Where do paleontologists usually find fossils?
In sedimentary rock. Usually in cliffs, beaches, and deserts.
Which fossil is not actually part of an organism, but is something that was left behind?
A trace fossil
In what other materials are fossils preserved?
Tar, ice, amber, and sedimentary rock.
What does the fossil record provide?
Clear evidence of a worldwide flood.
Is saying that dinosaurs and man lived on the earth at the same time a creationists viewpoint or an evolutionists?
A creationists.
How does the outward appearance of modern animals help paleontologists?
They can make guesses about what an extinct animal might have looked like.
What is a petrified fossil?
When bone or wood is replaced by minerals that harden into rock.
What is one thing scientist can't learn from a fossil
An animal's outward appearance.
Compare creationists and evolutionists view on the age of the earth.
Creationists: The earth is only thousands of years old.
Evolutionists: Life on earth developed gradually over millions of year.
What does extinction mean?
When the last of a certain plant or animal dies.
What are the jobs of a paleontologist?
Finds & studies fossils, takes them to be studied, cleans & prepares them for display.
What is carbon film?
A fossil formed when part of a plant or animal decayed under the weight of sediment leaves an image of itself on a rock.
What evidence of the flood does the fossil record show?
The flood tells us that animals were buried quickly.
Give me 3 facts evolutionists believe:
1. The age of a fossil is known by looking at the layer of the rock that it is in.
2. The layers of rock represent long periods of time.
3. The earth came into being by chance.
Any part or trace of a living organism that is naturally preserved after it dies.
Name 3 things that Genesis explains to support a creationist point of view:
The global flood accounts for the formation of most fossils.
The true origin of the earth.
Most animals outside the ark were destroyed by the flood.