Fossilization

Match the following

• Amber

• Trees that have turned to rock

• Original material

• Microscopic clamshells found in lake sediments.

• Microfossil

• Insect trapped in hardened tree sap

• Petrified fossil

• Dinosaur footprints

• Trace fossil

• A coquina clam that has been cemented in sedimentary rock

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Why are fossils not forming today when so many organisms continue to die?

• Most dead organisms need to be covered quickly with sediment to be preserved and we do not observe that happening today.

• The climate of current Earth is not suitable for preserving dead organisms and so they decay.

• Fossils are being made, we just can't see them because it takes millions of years to create them.

Define fossil.

• petrified bones that have been preserved over a very long time.

• any remains or trace of a formerly living thing preserved by natural processes.

• animal-shaped voids found in pyroclastic tephra

• insects encased in tree sap

In which type of rock are most fossils found?

• Igneous

• Sedimentary

• Metamorphic

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Most types of fossils are

• dinosaurs

• transition fossils

• marine organisms

• vertebrates

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Which of the following substances contains fossils?

• amber

• magma

• liquid

• all options

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Secular scientists believe petroleum forms from which fossilized organism?

• phytoplankton

• plants

• dinosaur bones

• fish

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________________________________: the study and classification of fossils

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Identify the following statement as a creationist or evolutionist perspective. "Index fossils can be used to help establish the absolute ages of rock strata, which then helps date other fossils in that rock layer.

• Creationist

• Evolutionist

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An index fossil refers to

• a fossil that is used to classify other fossils based on the shape of the bones

• a fossil that is used to date other fossils in the same rock layer as it

• a fossil of an insect

• the first fossil of a species that is discovered