Fossils

Preserved remains or traces of living things are formed when living things die and are buried by sediments

• Fossil

• Mold

• Carbon Fossil

• Trace Fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Scientists who study, and collect fossils

• Petrified Fossil

• Evolution

• Paleontologist

• Scientific Theory

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Hollow area in the sediment which shows the shape of or part of an organism

• Cast

• Mold

• Carbon Fossil

• Trace Fossil

Solid copy of the shape of an organism

• Carbon Fossil

• Mold

• Evolution

• Cast

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

fossils in which minerals replace part or all of an organism

• Trace Fossil

• Petrified Fossil

• Cast

• Extinct

extremely thin coating on rock

• Mold

• Cast

• Carbon Fossil

• Trace Fossil

provide evidence of the activities of ancient organisms

• Evolution

• Trace Fossils

• Cast

• Petrified Fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

gradual change in living things over time

• Evolution

• Extinct

• Mold

• Scientific Theory

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

well-test concept that explains a wide range of observations

• Mold

• Fossils

• Scientific Theory

• Extinct

When an organism no longer exists and never will again

• Paleontologist

• Extinct

• Petrified Fossil

• Scientific Theory

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1