Fossils

Question 1

Fossils

Answer 1

Remains, impressions, tracks, or other evidence of ancient organisms

Question 2

Trace Fossils

Answer 2

Any impression or other preserved signs of activity
footprints, tracks, trails, burrows

Question 3

Imprints

Answer 3

impressions of parts of organisms left in soil or sediment before it hardens thin objects
leaves, fish, feathers

Question 4

Cast

Answer 4

a model in the shape of a living thing or its remains forms when minerals or rock particles fill the space in a mold

Question 5

What is coprolite?

Answer 5

Fossilized Feces

Question 6

Mold

Answer 6

a space in a rock that has the shape of a living thing that once occupied that space

Question 7

Relative Age Dating

Answer 7

way to describe age of one object compared to another layers of rock near surface are younger than layers deeper down

Question 8

Amber

Answer 8

tree saps that hardens and traps both the hard and soft parts of living things

Question 9

Ice

Answer 9

living things can be buried in layers of ice

Question 10

Petrified Fossil

Answer 10

when minerals replace the bone, shell, or other hard parts that was trapped, turning them into rock

Question 11

Extinction

Answer 11

the death of all individuals of a species

Question 12

3 types of materials in which fossils are found

Answer 12

Amber, Rock, Wood

Question 13

Formation of the Earth and Moon

Answer 13

4,600,000,000 years ago

Question 14

Earliest Life

Answer 14

3,900,000,000 years ago

Question 15

Early Land Plants

Answer 15

420,000,000 years ago