Fossils Quick Review

The preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things...

• clay

• fossils

• igneous rocks

• silt

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What kind of fossil is this?

• Mold Fossil

• Cast Fossil

• True Form Fossil

• Trace Fossil

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What kind of fossils are these?

• Mold fossils

• Cast fossils

• True Form fossils

• Trace fossils

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What kind of fossil is this?

• Mold fossil

• Cast fossil

• True Form fossil

• Trace fossil

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Footprints, nests, and eggs are all examples of what kind of fossils?

• Mold fossil

• Cast fossil

• Trace fossil

• True Form fossil

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What can NOT become a fossil?

• plants

• animals

• soft body parts

• rocks

What do fossils teach us about?

• Everything we need to know about a plant or animal.

• They teach us about the past and the environment.

• Everything single living thing will become a fossil when it dies.

• That wooly mammoths are not extinct.

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Fossils today are most likely found

• close to the surface of the earth

• in the middle layer of the earth

• in the deepest layers of the earth

• fossils are only found in bodies of water

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Extinct means

• A dead animal has become fossilized.

• There is no more of a species left.

• Permineralization has occured within the fossil.

• The fossil has become petrified.

Fossils can provide evidence of how life has changed over time, how Earth's surface has changed, and clues about what past environments were like.

• True
• False

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