A Trip Through Earth's Past

What type of fossil is displayed?

• Petrified Fossil

• Cast

• Mold

• Preserved Remains

A fossil is________.

• any dead organism

• the preserved remains or traces of an organism

• a perfect copy of a rock

• an old person

What type of fossil is displayed?

• preserved remains

• carbon film

• trace fossil

• mold

Fossils usually form in which type of rock?

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

• quartz

Which type of fossil is displayed?

• trace

• petrified

• cast

• index

A fossil formed when minerals replace all or part of an organism is called a _____.

• mold

• petrified fossil

• cast

• trace fossil

Which type of fossil is displayed?

• carbon film

• cast

• trace fossil

• petrified fossil

____ can provide clues about the activities of ancient organisms.

• trace fossils

• remains preserved in amber (ohhh ohhh, amber is the color...)

• carbon films

• molds and casts

The _________________________Era is sometimes referred to as the “Age of Reptiles.”

• Proterozoic

• Cenozoic

• Paleozoic

• Mesozoic

The process by which all the different kinds of living things have changed over long periods of time is called _____.

• sedimentation

• replacement

• deposition

• evolution