Fossil Evidence of Evolution

Fossils

• The remains or evidence of once-living organisms

• Made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• The ways that fossils are formed

• When the last individual organism of a species dies

• A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Fossil record

• The remains or evidence of once-living organisms

• Made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• The ways that fossils are formed

• When the last individual organism of a species dies

• A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Fossil formations

• The remains or evidence of once-living organisms

• Made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• The ways that fossils are formed

• When the last individual organism of a species dies

• A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Extinctions

• The remains or evidence of once-living organisms

• Made up of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth

• The ways that fossils are formed

• When the last individual organism of a species dies

• A chart that divides Earth’s history into different time units

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Mold

• The impression of an organism in rocks

• The preserved evidence of the activity of an organism

• Features of organisms shown by mold and cast

• The impression of an organism in rocks that gets filled with sediments.

  A fossil copy of an organism in a rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Trace fossils

• The impression of an organism in rocks

• The preserved evidence of the activity of an organism

• Features of organisms shown by mold and cast

• The impression of an organism in rocks that gets filled with sediments.

  A fossil copy of an organism in a rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

External

• The impression of an organism in rocks

• The preserved evidence of the activity of an organism

• Features of organisms shown by mold and cast

• The impression of an organism in rocks that gets filled with sediments.

  A fossil copy of an organism in a rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Cast

• The impression of an organism in rocks

• The preserved evidence of the activity of an organism

• Features of organisms shown by mold and cast

• The impression of an organism in rocks that gets filled with sediments.

  A fossil copy of an organism in a rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

• Fossil trace

• Fossil mold

• Fossil cast

• Mineralization.

• Carbonization,

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

• Fossil trace

• Fossil mold

• Fossil cast

• Mineralization.

• Carbonization,

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1