Fossils and Rocks

What are fossils

• types of igneous rocks

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

• types of minerals

• metamorphic rock

What is an imprint fossil?

• a mark on a surface such as mud or rock

• bones, teeth and eggs

• organisms stuck in tree sap

• organisms trapped in ice

What is a body fossil?

• a mark on a surface such as mud or rock

• bones, teeth or eggs

• an organism trapped in tree sap

• an organism trapped in ice

What are amber fossils?

• a mark on a surface such as mud or rock

• bones, teeth or eggs

• an organism trapped in tree sap

• an organism trapped in ice

What are ice fossils?

• a mark on a surface such as mud or rock

• bones, teeth, eggs

• an organism trapped in tree sap

• an organism trapped in ice

Minerals......

• occur naturally

• do not occur in nature but are man made

what are sedimentary rocks

• rocks that change over time

• rocks formed as magma cools

• rocks formed as layers of sediments are compressed over long period of time.

Where can you find sedimentary rocks?

• the bottom of oceans and lakes

• volcanoes

• the moon

• inside the Earth's crust

What are igneous rocks?

• rocks formed over time as layers of sediments are compressed

• rocks formed as magma cools

• rocks that are changed over time by extreme heat and pressure

what might igneous rocks have in them?

• different layers showing different types of sediment

• speckles or bubbles