Vocabulary
I love fossils
Diggin it
Diggin DEEP (hard)
What Am I?
100
The remains or traces of past life, usually found in sedimentary rock.
What is fossil?
100
What are the two types of fossils?
Whole/Body Fossils
Trace Fossils
100
What does it mean if tropical plant fossils are found in the Arctic?
Our climate has changed- The arctic got warmer
100
The type of fossil that is evidence of an animal's activities.
What is a trace fossil?
100
Found in North Dakota and used to roam the sea. There were several of me what would my name be?
Mosasaurus
200
The study of fossils
What is paleontology?
200
Every kind of living thing has been preserved as a fossil.
What is false?
200
Fossils are evidence that our climate is changing.
True
200
What is coal made from
Carbonized plant fossils
200
I was longer than a school bus, and many of my teeth were bigger than your hand.
What is an ancient shark (megalodon)?
300
A fossil formed when
An organism dies and is burried quickly
300
An index fossil lived in many places for many millions of years.
What is false?
300
What is amber?
Dried tree sap
300
Minerals replace the dead cells of an organism and slowly turn it into_______________.
Rock
300
The one main supercontinent was called?
Pangea
400
Extinct means...
The organism will never return
400
Pangea was an ancient, giant continent.
What is true?
400
Why are trace fossils considered incomplete?
Trace fossils don’t show the whole organism.
400
Dead organisms' hard body parts fossilize in this type of rock.
What is sedimentary rock?
400
I lived during the Ice Age. I had thick fur to keep me war. I had very long tusks to help me dig in the ice. I was very large.
What is a woolly mammoth
500
What is an organism
A plant or animal- a living thing
500
A fish fossil found in the desert is evidence that the land where the fossil was found was once _______.
Under Water
500
Which Fossil is the oldest?
Fossil D
500
Entire animals (spiders, insects) can be preserved when they are trapped in this type of sap that hardens.
What is amber?
500
Three horns for defense. Roaming around the wilderness. Only eating plants and brush. I'm rarely ever in a big rush. What am I?
Triceratops