Fossils Vocabulary

living things-plants and animals

• organism

• fossil

• decay

• cast

living things have died and no longer living on Earth

• immortal
• extinct
• alive
• dead

the preserved remains or trace of living thing from long ago

• imprint

• mold

• model

• Fossil

scientist who studies living things from the past

• Astronomer
• Botanist
• Geologist
• paleontologist

something that stands for a real object.

• cast

• fossil

• Model

• imprint

a hollow space in the shape of organism

• imprint

• organism

• decay

• mold

break down

• fossil

• model

• decay

• imprint

a fossil made when minerals fill a space and harden

• cast

• imprint

• organism

• model

A mark made by pressure. An imprint fossil is a mark or shape in rock left by a plant or animal that lived long ago.

• trade

• Imprint

• mold

• body