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Earth science
Earth science fossils
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a fossil | the preserved remains or traces of living things |
| what part of an organism gets preserved | the hard part |
| molds and cast | a solid area in sediment in the shape of an organism |
| petrified fossil | fossils that replace all or part of an organism |
| trace fossils | fossils that provide evidence of activities of ancient organisms |
| preserved remains | organisms with little or no change |
| paleontologist | a scientist that studies fossils |
| 2 things that scientist can learn from fossil records | history of life past environments |
| what is a scientific theory and how does it relate to evolution theory | evolution is the gradual change in things over long periods of time and a scientific theory is a theory well tested over a wide range of observations |