Fossils

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Making imprints of objects in clay is most useful for learning about _____________________.

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fossils

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You find a dinosaur footprint in a rock near your house. What is the BEST conclusion you can draw from this footprint about what happened many years ago?

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dinosaurs once loved where you live

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What happens to MOST dead plants and animals?

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they quickly rot or get eaten

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What can scientists most easily tell from a set of footprints that have become fossils?

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how the animal moved

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What needs to happen for a bone to become a fossil?

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It must be buried.

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A scientist finds shell fossils in a rock in the desert. What conclusion can the scientist make?

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Millions of years ago, the desert was an ocean.

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Why do scientists know that dinosaurs actually lived?

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They have found fossils of dinosaurs.

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What can scientists learn about a particular dinosaur from studying its fossilized teeth?

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what kind of food it ate

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What is a fossil?

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fossils are the preserved remains of plants or animals that lived long ago

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Where can fossils be found?

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Hardened tree sap, sedimentary rock, they can be petrified.