Fossils and Their Significance

What can fossils found in the ground tell us?

• What the environment was like a long time ago

• How to build a house

• How to plant trees

• What the weather will be tomorrow

What do dinosaur detectives study to learn about dinosaurs?

• Fossils

• Stars

• Clouds

• Cars

What can the distance between dinosaur footprints tell us?

• If a dinosaur was running fast or slow

• What color the dinosaur was

• How tall the dinosaur was

• What the dinosaur ate

What are fossils?

• The remains of a plant or animal that lived a long time ago

• Pieces of plastic

• Modern animal bones

• Rocks from space

What are trace fossils?

• Fossils that show an animal or plant was once there, like footprints

• Fossils made of gold

• Fossils that are only found in water

• Fossils that glow in the dark

What is evidence?

• Information that can be used to support or reject an idea

• A type of dinosaur

• A kind of rock

• A plant from the past

What is a dinosaur?

• A type of animal that lived long ago and shares traits with modern birds and reptiles

• A kind of tree

• A type of fish

• A modern-day mammal

What does "changing environment" mean?

• The Earth's surface has changed over time

• The sun is moving

• The moon is growing

• The stars are falling

What can fossils tell us about habitats from long ago?

• If the habitat had walking or flying animals

• How to make fossils

• What color the sky was

• How to plant flowers

What does finding more fossils in an area tell us?

• More about that land from long ago

• How to cook food

• How to swim

• How to build a boat