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Fossil Formation
Types of fossils
Extinct/Endangered
Fossils found on land
Mixed
100

TRUE OR FALSE A dead bird buried in clay cannot become a fossil.

What is false

100

A dinosaur steps in mud and forms ______.

trace fossil

100
An animal that is no longer on Earth.
What is extinct
100
These people study and find fossils
What is Paleontologist
100
What animal is LEAST likely to form a fossil. a shark, a snail, a jellyfish, or a elephant
What is a jellyfish
200

True or False: Animal bones can become a fossil over millions of years.

True

200

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!! A cast fossil is formed when _____

when minerals fill inside a mold of a fossil

200

How can we prevent animals from becoming extinct?

Not over fish, poach, hunt

200
If fossils are found in three different layers of the earth which layer would be the oldest fossil?
What is the lowest/ farthest layer
200
sea animal fossils can be found in ______
What is rocks in the ground
300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!! TRUE OR FALSE If you pressed a shell into clay and pull it out it will look like a fossil.

What is True

300
A fossil is formed when a leaf falls into sand and the sand then forms into a rock. What is this called?
What is a imprint fossil
300

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!! TRUE OR FALSE The Siberian Tiger, The African Elephant and the Wooly Mammoth are endangered animals.

What is False

300
True or False Fossil bones are found on top of sand in the dessert tells us that wind blew away the sand that covered the fossil.
What is True
300
The black rhinoceros is an ______ animal
What is an endangered
400

Fossils are formed beneath layers of ______ and are formed when animal teeth and bones are filled with _______.

sediments (small rocks) and minerals

400

TRUE OR FALSE Trace Fossils are for example marks, foot prints, trail, burrow

True

400
Descibe the difference between an endangered animal and an extinct animal
What is the extinct animal is no longer living and the endangered animal have very few still living.
400

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!! If we found a fossil of a fish in the coastal plains it means that _______

A body of water was once there.

400
Fossils that look like the clams of today tells us that _______
What is clams have been around for a really long time.
500
Name the parts of animals that can become fossils.
What is bones, and teeth
500

What are the four types of fossils?

What is an trace, a mold, true form, and a cast

500
Name 3 extinct animals
What is a sabertooth tiger, wooly mammoth, a dodo bird, a pterodactyl, etc.
500

Fossils are usually found in ______

Sedimentary Rocks

500

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!! A tree that is filled with minerals and becomes hard is called ____________. (hint: not called a fossil)

What is a petrified tree.