Unit 12 Summative Fossil Review

This type of fossil occurs when minerals replace all or part of the organism.

• Cast

• Preserved Remains aka True Form

• Petrified Fossil

• Mold

This vocabulary word describes a type of fossil that is a hollowed-out area in sediment (imprint) in the shape of the original organism.

• Cast

• Mold

• Petrified

• Preserved Remains

This vocabulary word means a scientist who studies fossils.

• Cast Fossil

• Sedimentary Rock

• Paleontologist

• Archaeologist

This vocabulary word means that there are no longer any known living species of an animal.

• Extinct

• Fossil

• Fossil Record

• Endangered

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The evidence of the history of life and past environments on Earth is provided by the

• extinct

• cast fossil

• paleontologist

• fossil record

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A thin coating of carbon on a rock left behind by a long dead organism is called

• a carbon film

• carbon-dating

• radioactive decay

• cast fossil

This type of fossil may be found in tar, amber (hardened tree sap) or ice.

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Preserved Remains (aka True form)

• Petrified Fossil

Look at the picture. What type of fossil is shown?

• Trace

• Cast

• Mold

• True form

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Look at the image. What kind of fossil does the image show?

• Cast

• Petrified

• Mold

• True form

Look at the picture. What type of fossil does the picture show?

• Cast

• Trace

• Petrified

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