Fossils

What two forces can turn fossils into fossil fuels?

• lift and thrust

• wind and rain

• Temperature and Pressure

A fossil imprint made by the outside of an organism

• mold fossils

• cast fossils

• trace fossils

• fossilization

Fossils are often found in this rock

• metamorphic rock

• sedimentary rock

• volcanic rock

• decompose

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a scientist who studies fossils

• doctor

• paleontologist

• meterologist

• rock dr

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The process by which the remains of living things are turned into rock

• mold fossils

• cast fossils

• fossilization

• preserved

Layered fossils; oldest known fossils

• paleontologist

• preserved

• true form fossils

• stromatolites

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A fossilized sign that an animal or plant once lived in the area

• true form fossils

• cast fossils

• trace fossils

• sedimentary rock

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The actual plant or animal; the whole organism has been preserved

• cast fossils

• true form fossils

• mold fossils

• trace fossils

Mold that was filled in and then turned into rock

• decompose

• trace fossils

• true form fossils

• cast fossils

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The preserved remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago are called ____________.

• soil

• fossils

• rocks

• humus

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