Types of Fossils
Fossil Creation and Steps
Taxonomy
What Plants and Animals Need to Live
Animals
100
A fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than of the animal itself.
What is a trace fossil?
100
When a bug is covered by amber.
What is preservation?
100
Animals that do not have spines.
What is an invertebrate?
100
This liquid is used by both plants and animals to maintain life.
What is water?
100
What is a fish?
200
The remains of a prehistoric plant or animal found preserved in a solid, mineralized form in rocks or, sometimes, frozen in ice. Examples: Bone, Tooth, Claw
What is a body fossil?
200
The animal is quickly covered by sediment.
What is permineralization?
200
Animals that have fins and gills. They also lay eggs in water.
What is a fish?
200
Large amounts of area to grow and live in that both plants and animals need.
What is space?
200
What is a mammal?
300
What is a trace fossil?
300
Someone who studies fossils.
What is a paleontologist?
300
Animals that have feather.
What is a bird?
300
A form of energy created by the sun that plants need.
What is sunlight?
300
What is a bird?
400
What is a body fossil?
400
An animals quickly dies and the soft parts rot away.
What is permineralization?
400
Animals that has lungs and lays eggs on land
What is a reptile?
400
water, air, nutrients, and sunlight
What do plants need to live?
400
What is an amphibian?
500
What is a body fossil?
500
When an animal is covered by tar, ice or sap.
What is preservation?
500
These animals lay eggs in water and have two stages in their life cycle
What is an amphibian?
500
food, water, shelter, and space
What do animals need to live?
500
What is an invertebrate?