Vocabulary Quiz: Fossils

the process by which all the different

kinds of living things have changed over

time.

• mold

• fossils record

• evolution

• scientific theory

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a fossil that is a copy of an organism's

shape, formed when minerals seep into

a mold.

• cast

• mold

• petrified fossil

• index fossil

a trace of an ancient organism

that has been preserved in rock.

• fossils record

• mold

• cast

• fossils

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provides evidence about the history of

life and past environments on Earth.

• mold

• fossils record

• petrified fossil

• fossils

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fossils of widely distributed organisms

that lived during only one short period.

• index fossil

• period fossil

• molded fossil

• fossil record

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a fossil formed when an organism

buried in sediment dissolves, leaving a

hollow area.

• cast

• pan

• mold

• indent

a scientist who studies fossils to learn

about organisms that lived long ago.

• biologist

• fossilogist

• paleontologists

• scientist

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a fossil in which minerals replace

all or part of an organism.

• petrified fossil

• hard fossil

• index fossil

• colored fossil

the ongoing process of discovery in science; the

diverse ways in which scientists study the natural

world and propose explanations based on evidence

they gather.

• observation

• inference

• theory

• scientific theory

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a type of fossil that provides evidence

of the activities of ancient organisms.

• indentation fossil

• index fossil

• petrified fossil

• trace fossil