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Fossil Facts
Finding Fossils
Kinds of Fossils
Fossil Uses
Fossil Vocabulary
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Fossils
What are preserved remains of plants and animals
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Sediment
What is the name of the type of substance (mud, rock) that fossils might be found in.
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A Living Fossil
What do we call animals or plants that still look like their ancestors that lived millions of years ago?
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To learn about earth's history and how plants and animals looked long ago.
Why do we study fossils?
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Paleontologist
What is a scientist called who studies fossils?
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Plants or animals die, get covered up by sediment, thier flesh rots away and hard parts or imprint is left.
How is a fossil formed?
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A dig
What is a place or site called where fossils are being looked for?
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A Coelacanth (SEE-luh-kanth)
What is an ancient fish that lived 360 million years ago and still lives near Madagascar?
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Coal, Oil and Gas
What fossils do we use for electricity and to power our forms of transportation (cars, trains, ships, etc.)?
200
Extinct, extinction
What is the word we use when a type of plant or animal no longer lives on this earth?
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Earth's mountains or surface were once covered by water or ancient oceans.
Why do we find so mamny fossilzed sea animals on dry land?
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A lab
Where would a paleontologist take fossils to study them more in depth?
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Coal.
What is a plant fossil that we use today to create heat and energy?
300
Scientific Labs and Museums
Where are fossils stored or kept for research and learning?
300
Prehistoric
What is the word that is used when we talk about something that happened before recorded history. (before man could read or write)
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Fossils that look like snails. They are prehistoric sea creatures with spiral,chambered shells.
What is an ammonite?
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In rocky areas like cliffs or quarries
Where would you most likely find fossils?
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Sea animal that is related to crabs and lobsters. They are oval and have ridged backs and are one of the most common type of fossil found.
What is a Trilobite?
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To learn what life was like long ago. To learn what animals and plants such as dinosaurs looked like and how they lived long ago.
Why do we study fossils?
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Amber
What is hardened tree sap?
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Fossiled remains of ancient reptiles and birds that lived millions of years ago.
What is a dinosaur?
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Niger, Africa
Where did scientist, Paul Sereno, discover a fossil of a Super Croc?
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Mineral fossils, molds, casts, and trace fossils.
What are four types of fossils?
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Teeth and bones
What hard parts of animal bodies are preserved over long periods of time and become fossilized?
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Trace fossils
What are fossils made from markings that plants or animals leave behind?