Vocabulary
What does "extinct" mean?
What kind of fossil is created when an insect gets stuck inside resin that hardens into amber?
A whole-body fossil
Are hard or soft parts of an animal more likely to become fossilized?
Hard parts
How is being "endangered" different from being "extinct"?
Endangered is at risk of going extinct, but extinct means no longer existing.
What can trace fossils teach scientists about dinosaurs?
Its size and how many legs it walked on.
What can scientists learn by studying fossils?
The behavior of dinosaurs
What is a fossil?
The remaining pieces or trace of an organism that lived long ago.
How do mold and cast fossils form?
An organism dies and decomposes, and the space where it was fills with something to make a copy.
What kinds of food would dinosaurs with flat teeth most likely have eaten?
Plants
What is resin?
A sticky tree substance that hardens into amber.
Footprints or a clue of how the organism lived. There are no parts of it there.
What can cause extinction?
An organism's environment changing.
What is the opposite of the word "preserved"?
Decayed
How is a whole body fossil (usually set in resin) different from other types of fossils?
It shows soft body parts too, not just shells or hard body parts.
How might you tell from fossils that an animal was social, or part of a group?
Its fossils might be found with other similar fossils.