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Fossil Facts
Forming Fossils
Very Interesting
Extinct
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100
Type of fossil an imprint or footprint leaves behind
What is a trace fossil?
100
The science word for the breaking down of dead plants or animals
What is decompose?
100
This fossil is strange-looking...maybe with a shell body and odd markings.
What is a trilobite?
100
An animal or plant is extinct. This means...
What is that none are left alive on Earth?
100
T. Rex teeth were about this large.
What is the size of bananas?
200
Tree sap trapped an insect and became hard. Now it is this.
What is amber?
200
Type of rock almost all fossils have been found in
What is sedimentary?
200
This living animal had fossil ancestors as small as a rabbit and as tall as a T. Rex.
What is a camel?
200
This creature has fossils that have been found in ice, including hair and skin.
What is the woolly mammoth?
200
What scientists can learn from fossil teeth
What is what the animal ate?
300
Three parts of animal bodies that became fossils
What are bones, teeth, and horns?
300
Science word for the layers that form sedimentary rock
What is sediment?
300
A picture in your book showed a trace fossil of this kind of animal scientists thought was extinct. They found out later it is still a living species!
What is a fish?
300
A living animal that closely resembles the saber tooth cat fossils
What is a tiger or lion?
300
Scientists can use dinosaur footprint trace fossils to figure this out about the dinosaur.
What is its size?
400
This is the main reason there are less plant fossils than animal fossils.
What is because plants do not have hard parts so they break down easily?
400
Type of scientist that finds and studies fossils
What is a paleontologist?
400
The nickname of the whale fossil at the museum in Macon
What is Ziggy?
400
Many fossils of sand dollars have been found. Sand dollars can still be found in the ocean. Make an inference about sand dollars.
What is that they have been living for many, many years and are not extinct?
500
An example of a fossil of a plant or animal that looks the same today
What is a fern or ginkgo leaf, or bristle cone pine cones or camels?
500
A reason a fossil may be exposed so that it could be found
What is weathering over time? What is an earthquake? What is shifts of the earth's surface?
500
In your experiment, explain which part was the cast and which was the mold.
What is the play doh was the mold and the plaster of Paris shell was the cast?
500
Shark teeth and whale fossils have been found in Georgia. Scientists have inferred this about Georgia.
What is that some of it was once under water?