Fossils

People who study fossils are called ____.

• meterologists
• fossilologists
• paleontologists
• fossil hunters

In which kind of rock do we usually find a fossil?

• sedimentary  rock
• metamorphic rock
• igneous rock

The hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago.

• extinct
• cast
• fossil
• bone

Soft parts of plants and animals

• decay

• form fossils

The empty space left in a rock is a...

• cast

• mold

• fossil

____________ has the same shape as the living thing that died.

• rock

• cast

• dirt/mud

One example of a trace fossil is...

• fish teeth

• footprints

• dinosaur leg

The rarest kind of fossil

• amber

• whole plants/animals

• trace fossil

Whole animal fossils have been found frozen in ice

• true

• false

Fossils tell us about...

• The past

• The present

• The future