Give it to me
Any part or trace of an organism that is naturally preserved after it dies is a _____.
fossil
name one limitation paleontologists face when reconstructing fossils
One limitation paleontologists face when reconstructing fossils is that sometimes they cannot find all the bones, so they guess about the missing ones.
Fossilized tree resin that has hardened into a yellow, gemlike substance is ____.
amber
What is a petroleum geologist trained to do?
a petroleum geologist is trained to find more sources of crude oil and natural gas.
A sticky, black liquid made of crude oil in which some organisms were trapped, died, and were preserved is _____.
tar
From the Bible, how do you know that people and dinosaurs lived on the earth at the same time?
The Bible says in Genesis 1 that God created all land and sea animals on day five, and God created man on day 6. During the Flood, God told Noah to put two kinds of every animal, including dinosaurs, on the ark.
The fossil fuel that formed from fossilized plant matter is _____.
coal
Help defend the fact that fossil are thousands and not billions of years old.
The fossils were made about 5000 years ago during the Flood. The layer of the geologic column where fossils are found shows the order that the organisms died, not the order in which they lived. Slow animals were found at the bottom of the geologic column because they could not run away as fast as the fast moving animals found at the top of the geologic column.
A member of an extinct group of land-dwelling animals, originally described as a "terrible lizard" is a ______.
dinosaur.