Fossils

Which fossil formation happens when an insect gets trapped in sticky tree sap. The tree sap hardens and turns into this substance, which preserves the organism that was trapped inside?

• cast

• amber

• mold

• petrified

Which type of fossil is formed when water deposits minerals to fill in a space. This fossil has the exact same shape as the original organism?

• petrified

• imprint

• cast

• mold

What type of fossil is formed when mud fills in the hollow spaces around something hard, such as a shell, and then hardens. This results in a hollow space shaped exactly like the original object?

• amber

• mold

• petrified

• cast

This is a fossil in which minerals replace part or all of an organism. making it rock like.

• imprint

• cast

• petrified

• amber

Select 2 answers. What does the fossil records tell us?

• Earth's history

• changing life forms

• age of the Earth

• Moom composition

The remains or traces of prehistoric life found in sediment and sedimentary rocks.

• fossils

• unaltered remains

• altered remains

• carbonization

A widespread geographically, are limited to a short span of geologicc time, and occur in large numbers.

• index fossils

• fossils

• fossil succession

• bugs bunny

The law that states "in a column of rock, older samples are found further down than younger samples"

• law of cross cutting relationships

• law of superposition

• law of horizontality

• law of absolute dating

A fossil that shows the activity of organisms

• index fossil

• cast and mold

• preserved fossil

• trace fossil

Which of the following is NOT a way a fossil can be preserved?

• tar

• amber

• water

• ice