Fossil Quizizz HW

Who proposed the idea of uniformitarianism?

• James Hutton

• Alfred Wegner

• Charles Lyell

• Issac Newton

The idea that the processes that shape the world now, also shaped it in the past

• Catastrophism

• Gradualism

• Uniformitarianism

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

Scientists look at fossils as a way to understand

• Earth now

• Earth in the past

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Fossilized tree resign

• Asphalt

• Amber

• Petrified Wood

the traces/remains of an organism that lived long ago

• Fossils

• Fossil Records

• Trace Fossils

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Black, sticky residue that is used to make roads. Fossils can get stuck in it

• Amber

• Asphalt

• In very cold places, an organism may become ______

• Buried

• Petrified

• Trapped

• Frozen

Places on Earth where asphalt wells up

• Asphalt Ponds

• Asphalt Pools

• Asphalt Holes

Frozen tempertature _______ the rate of decay

• increases

• decreases

This happens when an organism’s tissues are replaced by minerals

• Petrification
• Mineralization
• Fossilization