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Vocabulary
Fossil Formation
Learning from Fossils
Fast Facts
100
describes a group of living things that is no longer living
What is extinct
100

the soft parts of the once-living plant were replaced by this

What are minerals

100
Scientists may learn what an animal ate by looking at the shapes of this fossil item.
What are teeth?
100
Layers of a rock can be used to tell how _________ a fossil is.
What is old?
200
the hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago
What is a fossil
200

True OR False : Animal fossils are more common than plant 

True

200

By comparing fossils, we can determine that some living things have not done this in millions of years.

What is changed?

200
Deeper layers of rock are ___________ than the layers above.
What is older?
300

the person that studies human remains or artifacts

What is an archaeologist

300
We do not know what many ancient plants look like because they did this before they could form a fossil.
What is rotted away?
300
Scientists compare animal fossils to similar animals that are alive today. For example the elephant and the mammoth both have these.
What are tusks?
300

What is today's lesson about?

The study of fossils

400

many animal fossils were found here because of the stickiness

What is a tar pit

400

Fossils are usually found stuck in 

Rocks

400
If two fossils are found in the same rock, scientists can infer that these two things did this.
What is lived at the same time?
400

An animal still looks much like it did millions of years ago so we can infer this about a fossil of that animal.

The fossil of the animal will look much like the animal that is still living today.

500
True or False: can plants be fossils?

True

500
Describe the steps for a fossil to form in sedimentary rock.
1) soft parts of the animal decompose 2) hard parts of the animal are buried under layers of sediment 3) the bones and sediment turn into rock
500
By looking at a fossil jawbone you may learn....
What did an animal eat? How old was the animal? Was the animal male or female?
500
Suppose a plant and animal die on the same day. Which one will most likely become a fossil? Why?
The animal because it has more hard parts than the plant