Types of Fossils Review

What is an imprint fossil?

• Petrified wood
• A cast
• Bone
• An animal track

This fossil is a result of minerals that seep into the organism and replace the organic material maintaining the stucture.

• Petrified remains

• Carbon Films

• Molds & Casts

• Trace fossils

Which type of fossils can be created when an animal walked in mud long ago and then the mud hardened intro rock?

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Preserved remains

Which type of fossils have examples that include: footprints, burrows, nests, eggshells, and coprolite?

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Preserved remains

Which type of fossil is a mold that was filled in and then turned to rock?

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Preserved remains

Which type of fossil shows a negative image of the animal, plant, or other organism?

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Preserved remains

After an organism dies, minerals seep into the mold they leave and form what type of fossil?

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Preserved remains

In what type of fossil does the soft tissues of the organisms never decay?

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Preserved remains

I found a fossil that looked like footprints. What kind of fossil did I most likely find?

• Cast
• Trace
• Mold
• Igneous

Scientists can use plaster in order to make a cast fossil from what type of fossil?

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil

• Trace Fossil

• Preserved remains