Fossils Flashcards

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How can fossils be destroyed?

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By geological activity, such as movement of tectonic plates

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What are fossils?

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Remains of organisms from many years ago founding rocks

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Name three ways how fossils can form in rocks?

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From gradual replacement by minerals, from casts and impressions, from preservation in places where no decay happens

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