Fossil Assessment

What is a fossil?

• a hard orange-yellow substance formed from tree sap

• weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

• the preserved remains of plants and animals that that lived long ago

• to rot or decompose

What is Amber?

• a person who studies fossils

• a hard orange-yellow substance formed from tree sap

• weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

• the preserved remains of plants and animals that lived long ago

What is a paleontologist?

• a person who studies fossils

• a hard orange-yellow substance formed from tree sap

• weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

• the preserved remains of plants and animals that lived long ago

What is climate?

• a person who studies fossils

• a hard orange-yellow substance formed from tree sap

• weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

• the preserved remains of plants and animals that lived long ago

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What is decay?

• the preserved remains of plants and animals that lived long ago

• living things such as plants and animals

• to rot or decompose

• no longer alive

What is organisms?

• the preserved remains of plants and animals that lived long ago

• living things such as plants and animals

• to rot or decompose

• no longer alive

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What is extinct?

• the preserved remains of plants and animals that lived long ago

• living things such as plants and animals

• to rot or decompose

• no longer alive

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When scientist found a fish fossil in the desert, they knew that long ago that piece of land was ________________.

• a desert

• a mountain

• a body of water

• a hill

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In very cold climates, fossils can be preserved in ______________.

• ice or snow

• sand

• wood

• fossils cannot be preserved in very cold climates

What does a sharp tooth fossil tell scientist about that animal?

• it probably only ate plants

• it probably ate other animals (meat)

• it probably drank water

• it was prey for other animals

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