What Are Fossils

What are fossils

• remains of ancient animals and other life forms

• Rocks

• Animal Bones

• Living things

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What is one way fossils can form

• being in water

• permineralization

• The bones being left behind

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• Earth's Systems: What are fossils?

• What are Fossils

• Earth's Systems: How fossils are created.

• Earth's Systems: Why are fossils important?

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The most common fossils come form what

• shells

• bones

• tree trunks

• all of the above

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How does a fossil form through carbonization.

• squeezed between two rocks

• Covered in sediment

• Decaying

How are bones, teeth, shells and tree trunks usually preserved

• permineralization

• amber

• Covered in stones

• All of the above

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_______ are the preserved remains or traces of living things.

• bones

• fossils

• artifacts

• organic matter

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The fossil from the Jurassic period looks much like ______ we find on Earth today.

• Ferns

• Fish

• Snails

• Starfish

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In which kind of rock do we usually find a fossil?

• sedimentary  rock

• metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

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Fossils can provide evidence of how life has changed over time, how Earth's surface has changed, and clues about what past environments were like.

• True

• False

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