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Fossil Types
Extinction Theories
Inferences
Miscellaneous
Fossil Formation
100
A fossil made from an imprint.
What is a mold fossil.
100
When a species quickly dies out.
What is mass extinction.
100
What have scientists learned about oceans from fossils?
What is oceans have changed their size and location around the Earth.
100
A fossil formed from tree sap.
What is amber.
100
A clue to Earth's past.
What is a fossil.
200
A fossil formed from a mold fossil.
What is a cast fossil.
200
Many different ideas that scientists have as to why the dinosaurs became extinct.
What is an extinction theory.
200
An animal with some sharp, pointed teeth and some flat teeth.
What is an omnivore.
200
How is a fossilized skeleton of a dinosaur similar to a lizar?
What is both have a tail and backbone.
200
The most common rock type where fossils are found.
What is a sedimentary rock.
300
Shows how plants and animals may have changed their surroundings.
What is a trace fossil.
300
A theory that involves the changing of environment and weather.
What is climate change.
300
If a paleontologist found plant fossils below a dinosaur fossil, what would this tell us?
What is that the plants were on Earth before the dinosaurs.
300
An animal that used to live in Utah, but no longer does. Explain.
What is a mammoth, dinosaur, trilobite, etc.
300
This has to happen very quickly in order for an animal or plant to become a fossil.
What is be buried quickly.
400
Different from a regular specimen because they are heavier, darker in color, and more brittle.
What is a mineral replaced fossil.
400
A natural disaster that causes air pollution, tidal waves, and earthquakes.
What is astroid impact.
400
How do we know the different plants and animals that lived in Utah a long time ago?
What is we find fossils of them in many places in our state.
400
How are mold and cast fossils similar? Different?
What is I will check your answers. :)
400
Why would the soft parts of a sharks body not be preserved as a fossil?
What is because they would rot away before fossilization occurred.
500
The three types of actual remains fossil.
What is amber, tar, and ice.
500
A natural disaster that causes climate change, lava and ash flows, and toxic gases to flow in the air.
What is a volcanic eruption.
500
How do we know that parts of Utah were once part of the sea floor of an ancient ocean?
What is we have found fossils of trilobites and ancient marine animals.
500
Three of the most common fossils found in Utah.
What is ancient marine animals, petrified wood, mammoth remains, dinosaur remains, or plant leaves.
500
The four steps of fossil created.
What is the animal dies, is buried quickly, its bones are fossilized, and after weathering and erosion it surfaces.