Fossil Practice Sheet

Fossil Practice Sheet

A Fossil is something which has been preserved, usually by being buried. A fossil can be plant, any kind of animal, insect a fish or anything else which used to be alive. are sometimes made of stones, but usually, they are made out of whatever they stared out as before they buried. Coal by fossilised wood. Or fossilised plant and animal remain which have turned to liquid.

Fossil Practice Sheet

How long does it take to turn animal into a fossil? Some people say million of years but it can be true because the world is not even 7000 years old since it was created.

Fossil Practice Sheet

Nearly all fossils are found in sedimentary rocks. Sedimentary is rock formed by water. Plants or animals are buried by fowling water, mud, sill, shingle, and sand. As layer of sediment build up a plant or animal is compressed, and same tiny minerals work their way body of the creature. Eventually the creature sets hard and become part of a rock, then along comes a paleontologist and chip away the rock, reveling the shape of a dead creature (or plant).

Fossil Practice Sheet

Some researches have made their own fossils, using sea-water plus bacteria. Using this method dead shrimp turned into fossils in about 6 weeks. This backs up the Bible, which tells of a wide flood which buried less than a yea, leaving billions of fossils in the rocks today.