Fossils Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Climate | Weather of an area. A desert is a dry climate. |
| Dinosaur | A group of large, extinct reptiles like animals. |
| Environment | All of the conditions and surroundings. The fern grew in a warm. |
| Extinct | No longer living. Such as dinosaurs. |
| Extinction | The process of dying out. |
| Fossil | The hardened remains of a plant or animal from long ago. |
| Impression | An imprint. Their foot made an ____ in the wet soil. |
| Infer | To make a conclusion from what is known. we can ______ that dinosaurs existed because of fossils. |
| Mineral | A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline substance that is made up of elements. Rocks are composed of these also. |
| Organism | Any living thing. |
| Paleontologist | A person who studies fossil remains. |
| Prehistoric | Before recorded history. |
| Preserved | Kept from rotting. |
| Replacement | To take the place of. Minerals take the place of the bird's feathers in the fossil. |
| Sedimentary | Rock formed from material that settles. |
| Trilobite | A fossilized sea animal. |
| Tropical | A warm, moist region. They went to a tropical island near the equator. |
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