FOSSILS

Are the remains of living things or traces of living things that lived very long ago.

• fossils

• remains

A ___________ is a footprint, burrow, or other mark left by a living thing.

• mold

• trace

What is the other term for the word petrified?

• turning into stone

• turning into dust

• turning into clay

• turning into paper

Are created by something pressed into the soil or mud that later become fossilized.

• trace fossils

• imprint fossils

Are remains of organisms (cast) and the imprint that they leave in the surrounding rock(mold).

• trace

• imprint

• cast/mold fossils

Scientists who study fossils.

• Paleontologists

• Ecologists

One reason that scientist study fossils is to gather evidence about different organisms and their environment.

• True

• False

All living things contain an element called ___________.

• paper

• carbon

• dust

• stone

Doctors use the information they gather from rocks and fossils to infer what Earth was through its history.

• True

• False

Paleontologists gather data, or facts, from fossils.

• True

• False