Mrs. Minter's Science Chapter 2

What forms when part of an organism decayed and was replaced by minerals that harden into rock?

• carbon film

• cast

• mold

• petrified fossil

What is the imprint of an organism that has been pressed into a rock?

• carbon film

• cast

• mold

• trace fossil

What is an image made from a decayed plant or animal pressed onto a rock?

• carbon film

• petrified fossil

• mold

• trace fossil

What is a copy of the shape of an organism formed by fine sediment that has been pressed into a mold?

• petrified fossil

• cast

• mold

• carbon film

What is a fossil of something that an organism left behind, such as a footprint?

• mold

• cast

• trace fossil

• petrified fossil

What is any part or trace of a living organism that is naturally preserved after it dies?

• mold

• cast

• fossil

• carbon film

To change gradually means to ___________.

• mold

• cast

• evolve

• excavate

Most of the fossils formed as a result of what event?

• a party

• Christmas

• the Flood

• an earthquake

People who believe that life on the earth developed gradually over millions of years.

• Creationists

• Evolutionists

• Paleontologist

• Geologists

People who believe that God made the earth and all forms of life in six days.

• Evolutionists

• Creationists

• Paleontologists

• Geologists