Fossils

Fossils are found in _________________________ rocks.

• igneous

• sedimetary

• metamorphic

Fossils give clues about organisms that lived recently.

• true

• false

Minerals help scientists understand what past environments may have been like.

• true

• false

Fossils help scientist understand what past environments may have been like.

• true

• false

A ______________________________________ studies fossils.

• biologist

• chemist

• zoologist

• paleontologist

Older fossils are in the _____________________________ layers of rock found in the earth.

• bottom

• top

• middle

Younger fossils are in the ___________________________layers of rock found in the earth.

• top

• bottom

• middle

The word __________________________________ means “turning into stone.”

• scared

• fossil

• petrified

• hollow

An organism, such as an insect, is trapped in a tree’s sticky resin and dies. More resin covers it, sealing the insect inside. It hardens into _____________________.

• tar

• amber

• ice

An organsim such as a woolly mammoth dies in a cold region, his body is preserved in _________.

• tar

• amber

• ice

• fossil