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Chapter 4.1 and 4.2
Chapter 4 section 1 and 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| fossil | the preserved remains or traces of living things |
| sedimentary rock | the type of rock that is made of hardened sediment |
| mold | a fossil formed when an organism buried in sediment dissolves, leaving a hollow area |
| cast | a solid copy of the shape of an organism |
| petrified fossil | a fossil in which minerals replace all or part of an organisum |
| carbon film | a type of fossil cinsisting of an extremly thin coating of carbon rock |
| trace fossil | a type of fossil that provides evidence of the activities of ancient organisms |
| paleontologist | a scienctist who studies fossils to learn about organisms that lived long ago |
| scientific theory | a well-tested concept thet explains a wide range of obervations |
| evolution | the process by which all the different kinds of living things have changed over time |
| extinct |