🦴 Fossils
What is a fossil?
➡️ Answer: The remains or traces of a living thing from long ago.
What are the three main states of matter?
➡️ Answer: Solid, liquid, gas.
What is the star at the center of our solar system?
➡️ Answer: The Sun.
What is an ecosystem?
➡️ Answer: A community of living and nonliving things interacting together.
Name one type of fossil.
➡️ Answer: Mold, cast, trace fossil, or preserved remains.
Which state of matter has a definite shape?
➡️ Answer: Solid.
What is the largest planet?
Jupiter
What is a producer?
➡️ Answer: A living thing (like a plant) that makes its own food.
How are most fossils formed?
➡️ Answer: When plants or animals are buried by sediment and harden over time.
What happens to liquid when it is heated?
It evaporates into a gas.
What causes day and night on Earth?
➡️ Answer: Earth’s rotation.
What is always the second item in a food chain?
Why are fossils important to scientists?
➡️ Answer: They help us learn about past life and environments on Earth.
What happens to a gas when it is cooled?
It condenses into a liquid.
Why do we have seasons on Earth?
➡️ Answer: Because Earth is tilted as it orbits the Sun.
What will happen if one item is removed from a food chain?
The ecosystem will be overpopulated OR die out altogether.