Fossil Record

The preserved remains or traces of an animal or plant that lived in the past.

• fossil

• ancestor

• bones

• rock imprints

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The arrangement of things in the order that they occurred

• Diversity

• Fossils

• Chronological Order

• Extinction

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The permanent disappearance of a species from Earth

• law of superposition

• diversity

• extinction

• petrification

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The mineralized remains of organisms and the rock layers in which they are found, showing when and where long-dead organisms lived and how their bodies were structured

• law of superposition

• radioactive dating

• fossil record

• petrification

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Scientists who study fossils are known as....

• archeologists

• geologists

• biologists

• paleontologists

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This type of fossil (like a footprint) shows evidence of past behaviors.

• cast fossil

• mold fossil

• inclusion fossil

• trace fossil

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Fossils are more likely to occur in which type of rock?

• igneous

• metamorphic

• sedimentary

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This type of fossil shows an impression of an organism in rock...

• cast fossil

• mold fossil

• trace fossil

• inclusion fossil

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The order of rock ________ help paleontologists tell how old a fossil is relative to another.

• strata
• molds
• types
• casts

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Tikaalik is a famous example of a _________ fossil.

• cast
• transitional
• mold
• imprint

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