Unit 5 Vocabulary Quiz

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The preserved remains or traces of a living thing.

• paleontologist
• fossil
• amber
• dinosaur

When plant tissue gets preserved in rock because of the element carbon that is found in all living things.

• sediments
• trace fossil
• amber
• carbon film

A scientist who studies fossils.

• amber
• trace fossil
• paleontologist
• carbon film

Footprints are an example of these types of fossils. They leave traces behind of a living thing.

• fossil
• trace fossil
• paleontologist
• skeletons

These fossils are formed when a hollow space is made from a living thing pressing into soft rock. Sometimes it fills in with mud.

• amber
• trace fossil
• metamorphic rock
• cast and mold fossils

This fossil forms when a living thing, such as an insect, gets trapped and preserved in tree resin.

• amber
• trace fossil
• scientist
• geology