3rd Grade FOSSILS Part 2

Nature . . .

• A single, self-contained, living thing

• Information that has been collected

• Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

• How something is without human intervention

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Fossil . . .

• Information that has been collected

• How something is without human intervention

• Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

• Information that supports an idea

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A single, self-contained, living thing

• Organism

• Information that supports an idea

• The space and all the living and nonliving things around an organism

• Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

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Information that has been collected . . .

• Nature

• Evidence

• Organism

• Data

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Which of the following is a quadruped?

• Human

• Parrot

• Horse

• Tree

What is something a paleontologist probably would not do?

• Look at fossilized bones

• Try to use dinosaur tracks to find out what the dinosaur weighed

• Hide fossils so no one else could find them

• Measure the distance between dinosaur tracks

The footprints left by the dinosaurs lasted for a long time. About 110 million years later, scientists made a discovery. They found tracks near Glen Rose, Texas. They also found dinosaur bones. They studied the tracks and bones closely. They gave this dinosaur the name Pleurocoelus (PLOOR-oh-SEEL-us). Later, they found the tracks of another dinosaur. To them, it seemed that this dinosaur was chasing the Pleurocoelus!

• The carnivore tracks came behind the Pleurocoelus tracks.

• The carnivore’s teeth were found near the Pleurocoelus.

• The Pleurocoelus was protecting its young.

• The carnivore was small.

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How many steps are there in the Scientific Method?

• 9

• 6

• 5

• 3

They Hypothesis. . .

• Is an educated guess

• a guess

• the results

• the analysis of the conclusion

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The first step of the Scientific Method is . . .

• Problem

• Conclusion

• Observation

• Hypothesis