Types of Fossils

Preserved remains or traces of living things?

• fossils
• organisms
• extinct
• rocks

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Type of rock that is made of hardened sediment?

• metamorphic rock
• igneous rock
• sedimentary rock
• limestone 

Scientists who study fossils?

• scientist
• paleontologist
• astronaut
• mrs. simao

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Petrified fossils means?

• afraid
• scared
• spooky
• turning into stone

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Trace fossils are?

• foot prints
• evidence of activities of ancient organisms
• traces of animals
• traces of rocks

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Remains can be preserved by?

• changing over time
• staying the same
• tar, amber, ice
• freezing only

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Process by which all different kinds of living organisms change over long periods time?

• extinct
• evolution
• scientific theory
• fosiilize

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The fossil record shows?

• groups of organisms have become extinct
• groups of organisms change over time
• have died and came back to life
• evolved into another species

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This type of fossil forms when sediments bury an organism and then sediments change into rock; the organism decays leaving a cavity in the shape of the organism.

• Mold

• Cast

• Trace

• Petrified

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These fossils are distinguishable from other fossils because they were scattered over a large region, very common, and lived during a short span of geologic time

• Mold

• Cast

• Trace

• Index

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