B5.2.2 - Evidence for evolution

Question 1

What are fossil?

Answer 1

Remains of a plant or animal mineralised or changed to rock

Question 2

How are fossil formed?

Answer 2

1. Creatures die and falls to ground
2. The flesh rots leaving the skeleton covered in sand or soil and clay before it is damaged
3. Over millions of years they become mineralised and turn to rock. The rocks shift in the earth with the fossil trapped inside
4. Eventually the fossil emerges as the rocks move and erosion takes place

Question 3

What animal are humans very similar to?

Answer 3

Chimpanzees