Fossils - Brain Pop

What made fossils?

• organisms from Earth's present

• organisms from Earth's future

• organisms from Earth's past

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What are the three most common types of fossils?

• mummies, petrified bones, and imprints

  
  

• casts, molds, and imprints

  
  

• amber, molds, and petrified organisms

  
  

What is a mold?

• a carbon copy of the original organism

  
  

• a hollow fossil that shows the features of an organism

  
  

• a print of the original organism made by pressing

  
  

True or False. Fossils are more than 10,000 years old?

• True

• False

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What is a cast?

• a fossil made of amber

  
  

• a fossil that looks just like the original organism

  
  

• a print of the original organism made by pressing

  
  

Which of these is an imprint?

• a mummified woolly mammoth

  
  

• animal footprints in a stone

  
  

How could an organism be perfectly preserved?

• if it was frozen in ice

  
  

• if it was submerged in warm water

  
  

• if it was buried in dirt

  
  

Obvi (True) or Nah Uhh (False). Fossils give clues about what Earth was like in the past

• Obvi (True)

• Nahh Uhh (False)

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

How are amber fossils made?

• by organisms that have their living parts replaced by minerals

  
  

• from organisms that get trapped in tree sap

  
  

• by organisms that leave footprints

  
  

What's a good place to look for fossils?

• in a dried up stream bed

  
  

• on a freshly mowed lawn

  
  

• on a busy street corner

  
  

• Vina Danks Field

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3