Types of Fossils
These types of fossils are body parts of old dinosaurs or other animals.
What are body fossils?
Body Fossils are most likely to be made of ______
What is bone?
Every kind of living thing has been preserved as a fossil.
What is false?
This animal lived during the Ice Age. It had thick fur to keep them warm. It had very long tusks to help them dig in the ice. It was very large.
What is a woolly mammoth?
The study of fossils
What is paleontology?
These are examples of trace fossils.
What are plants, leaves, feathers, footprints, and fish, etc.?
Dead organisms' hard body parts fossilize in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
Evidence of an animal's activities.
What is a trace fossil?
True or False
Only dinosaurs can leave behind fossils?
What is false.
A type of plant or animal that is no longer alive today.
What is extinction?
These are ways to preserve a whole organism as a fossil.
What is amber or ice?
Perfectly intact remains of animals have been found in the ice of frozen ________.
What are Tundras?
Students discover fossilized seashells on a mountain. What conclusion can best be made about the history of the area?
What is an ocean/sea?
True or False?
Some kinds of living things have not changed in millions of years.
What is true?
A fossil formed when dissolved minerals fill a mold and harden.
What is a cast?
Deeper layers of rock are ___________ than the layers above.
What is older?
Entire animals (spiders, insects) can be preserved when they are trapped in tree sap that hardens.
What is amber?
Scientists study fossils to learn about ______.
What are organisms from long ago?
What was the fossil from the start of the lesson?
What is a dinosaur tooth?
A scientist that studies the fossilized remains of a plant or animal.
What is a paleontologist?
True or False
99% of animal fossils found by palaeontologists are of sea creatures.
True
A hardened _________________ left behind by a plant or animal can also be a fossil.
What is an imprint?
The fossilised remains of tree sap
What is amber?
True or False:
A fish fossil found in the desert is evidence that the land where the fossil was found was once underwater.
What is true?
The process through which a living organism becomes a fossil.
What is an fossilisation?