Module 2: Study of Earth from long ago

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What is the process of making fossils?

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Fossilization

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What is the first step in the fossilisation process?

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

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What is most likely to become a fossil?

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Bone

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What paleontologist tool is this?

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Brush

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

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Fossil pushed to the surface, exposed and discovered, excavated by paleontologists.

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What do we call the layers of rock that can contain fossils?

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Rock Layers

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What is sediment?

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Small pieces of rock and dirt that can cover dead animals and plants.

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What happens to the soft parts of an animal after it dies?

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They decay and disappear.

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What do paleontologists study?

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Fossils and the history of life on Earth.

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What is pressure in the context of fossilization?

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The weight of layers of sediment that can turn sand into rock.