What Are Fossils

What is a fossil mold?

• Yesterdays food

• Nonrenewable resources

• An impression of an ancient organism.

• Renewable resources

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What can fossils tell us about past animals and life?

• It cannot be replaced easily

• The imprint or remains of plants and animals that lived long ago

• An impression of an ancient organism

• Info about the past environment, where animals came from, and what they looked like

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A fossil that is formed by sediments filling up a mold is a(n)

• Cast fossil

• Mold fossil

• Trace fossil

• Amber

Millions of years ago, the remains of dead plants and animals were buried by sediments. Through the action of time and pressure over millions of years, these remains changed form. We now call these changed remains

• Fossil fuels

• Natural gas

• Renewable resource

• Nonrenewable resources

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A person that studies the forms of life existing in prehistoric times by investigating the fossils of plants, animals, and other organisms is known as a

• Investigator

• Paleontologist

• Researcher

• Pathologist

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In layers of rock and their fossils, which layer contains the oldest fossils?__

• bottom of the sea.

• The ones on the bottom

• desert

• plant

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If a rock contains fossils of salt water plants and shells. What does this tell us about the rock?_

• Info about the past environment, where animals came from, and what they looked like

• The rock was once at the bottom of the sea

• Sedimentary

• The imprint or remains of plants and animals

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The hardened remains of a living thing that died long ago.

• fossil

• extinct

• endangered

• minerals

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If a scientist found a fish fossil in the desert, what can they infer?

• An animal ate the fish.

• The water covered the area long ago.

• Today's fish looks the same

• The fish is endangered.

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What are fossils?

• Remains or impressions of ancient organisms preserved in rock

• A type of renewable resource

• A modern-day plant species

• A type of sedimentary rock

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