Module 2: Study of Earth from long ago

What is the process of making fossils?

• Pressure
• Fossilization
• Rock Layers
• Sediment

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What is the first step in the fossilisation process?

• An animal dies and ends up in the sea. Covered with thin layer of sand.

• The flesh and tissue decayed.

• The sea goes back.

• The fossil becomes visible.

• Fossil pushed to the surface

  exposed and discovered

  excavated by paleontologists

  
  

What is the second step in the fossilisation process?

• An animal dies and ends up in the sea. Covered with thin layer of sand.

• covered with mud and sand and soft parts decayed

• covered by many layers of sand

  pressure turned sand to rock

• Water and minerals seeped in.

  Bones turned to stone

  petrified bones.

  
  

• Fossil pushed to the surface

  exposed and discovered”

  excavated by paleontologists

  
  

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What is the third step in the fossilisation process?

• An animal dies and ends up in the sea. Covered with thin layer of sand.

• covered with mud and sand and soft parts decayed

• covered by many layers of sand

  pressure turned sand to rock

• Water and minerals seeped in.

  Bones turned to stone

  petrified bones.

  
  

• Fossil pushed to the surface

  exposed and discovered”

  excavated by paleontologists

  
  

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What is the fourth step in the fossilisation process?

• An animal dies and ends up in the sea. Covered with thin layer of sand.

• covered with mud and sand and soft parts decayed

• covered by many layers of sand

  pressure turned sand to rock

• Water and minerals seeped in.

  Bones turned to stone

  petrified bones.

  
  

• Fossil pushed to the surface

  exposed and discovered”

  excavated by paleontologists

  
  

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What is the fifth (final) step in the fossilisation process?

• An animal dies and ends up in the sea. Covered with thin layer of sand.

• covered with mud and sand and soft parts decayed

• covered by many layers of sand

  pressure turned sand to rock

• Water and minerals seeped in.

  Bones turned to stone

  petrified bones.

  
  

• Fossil pushed to the surface

  exposed and discovered”

  excavated by paleontologists

  
  

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Which is a tool that a paleontologist uses?

• Microscope

• Pool

• Trunk

• Hot Air Ballon

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What is the study of fossils?

• Meteorology

• Botany

• Mineralization

• Paleontology

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What is most likely to become a fossil?

• Blood

• Hair

• Bone

• Muscle

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Why do we study fossils

• It is cool

• Fossils are found everywhere

• Fossils allow us to learn about living things from long ago

• We are hoping to bring dinosaurs back

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