Fossils

Question 1

What is are the traces or remains of animals or plants that lived in a previous geologic time called?

Answer 1

Fossils

Question 2

What is the study of fossils called?

Answer 2

Paleontology

Question 3

What are the fossilized marks of evidence of past animal movement such as tracks, footprints, borings, and burrows, can still provide information about prehistoric life?

Answer 3

Trace Fossils

Question 4

What is fossil that is used to establish the age of rock layers because it is distinct, abundant, and widespread and only existed for a short period of time?

Answer 4

Index Fossil

Question 5

What do you call it when organisms become trapped in the sticky sap and are preserved when the sap hardens?

Answer 5

Amber

Question 6

What do you call it when bodies are wrapped carefully with strips of cloth which causes the bacteria to die out?

Answer 6

Mummification

Question 7

What do you call it when organism fall into the tar seeps and are trapped and preserved?

Answer 7

Tar Seeps

Question 8

What is it called when organisms freezes, then preserves the whole body?

Answer 8

Freezing

Question 9

What type of fossil results in the formation of a near-perfect mineral replica of the original organism?

Answer 9

Petrification

Question 10

What type of fossil forms when dead organisms are squeezed between layers of rock,
leaving behind the organism’s carbon imprint in the rock?

Answer 10

Carbon Film

Question 11

What is an organism or shell is buried in rock and dissolves, creating a a space shaped like the original organism?

Answer 11

Mold

Question 12

What type of fossil is it called when sand or mud will fill a cast and create a replica of the original organism shell?

Answer 12

Cast

Question 13

What is fossilized dung or waste materials called?

Answer 13

Coprolites

Question 14

What type of fossil is it called when some dinosaurs would eat these, and they would help grind food in their digestive system (aka “stomach stones”)?

Answer 14

Gastroliths