This fossil is an example of________

• trace fossil
• carbonized fossil
• frozen remains
• tar pit fossil

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The remains, or traces on once-living organisms are called fossils.

• true
• false

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What does this say?
"60 mya"

• Sixty male, young, antelopes
• 60 miles per hour
• sixty million years ago
• 60 minutes

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These are an example of ____________

• frozen remains
• permineralized fossils
• cast fossils
• tar pit fossils

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Preserved footprints, or fossilized scat are examples of _________

• trace fossils
• carbonized fossils
• cast fossils
• mold fossils

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A carbonized fossil is quickly buried and flattened by the pressure of the sediments on top of it.  What remains is____________________

• Just bones
• a trace fossil
• a thin black film
• amber

This fossil forms when minerals in water slowly replace the organisms tissues.

• carbonized fossil
• permineralized fossil
• trace fossil
• petrified wood

An amber fossil forms when an organism gets stuck in sticky __________, which eventually hardens around it.

• tree sap
• tar
• cement
• syrup

The impression of an organism's body shape left in sediment is called a cast fossil

• true
• false

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When water seeps in, to fill the impression of a mold fossil, the minerals in the water form a _____________.

• permineralized fossil
• mold fossil
• trace fossil
• cast fossil