FOSSILS SCRAMBLED EGGS

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FOSSILS SCRAMBLED EGGS
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1. What is a fossil?
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1. What is a fossil?

• Preserved remains of a once living organism.

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2. What is a scientist who studies fossils
called?
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2. What is a scientist who studies fossils
called?

• Paleontologist

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3. How is a fossil formed?
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3. How is a fossil formed?

• When living things are buried by sediments and
  the sediments harden into rock and preserve the
  shapes of the organisms.

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4. Give 3 reasons why scientists study fossils.
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4. Give 3 reasons why scientists study fossils.

• Provide evidence of how life has changed over
  time.
• Help scientists infer how Earths surface has
  changed over time.
• Clues to what past environments were like
• Climate has changed over time

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5. What type of rock could you find a fossil in?

• Sedimentary

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6. What does petrified mean? How does a
petrified fossil form?
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6. What does petrified mean? How does a
petrified fossil form?

• Petrified means turning into stone.
• A petrified fossil forms as minerals replace all
  or part of an organism.

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7. What is the difference between a mold and
cast fossil?
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7. What is the difference between a mold and
cast fossil?

• A mold is a hollow area in sediment in the shapre
  of an organism or part of an organism.
• A cast is a copy of the shape of an organism.
• MOLD CAST

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8. What is a carbon film fossil?

• An extremely thin coating of carbon on rock left
  when gases escape a buried organism

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9. What is a trace fossil and give 2 examples.
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9. What is a trace fossil and give 2 examples of
trace fossils.

• Evidence of the activities of ancient organisms.
• Ex fossilized footprint trails or burrows of
  animals

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10. Give 3 different ways an organism can leave
behind preserved remains with little or no change.

• Preserved in tar pits, amber, or by freezing

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11. All the information that paleontologists
have gathered about past life is called
__________________.
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11. All the information that paleontologists
have gathered about past life is called
__________________.

• The fossil record

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12. Give 2 reasons why the fossil record is
important.
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12. Give 2 reasons why the fossil record is
important.

• Provides evidence about the history of life
• Shows that organisms have changed over time

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13. The fossil record show us that organisms
have changed over time. How?
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13. The fossil record show us that organisms
have changed over time. How?

• The have gone from simple to more complex