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Science test:fossils
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| one thing that can be deduced from a fossil | the age of the rock |
| what is meant by a fossil | fossils are the remains or traces of animals or plants that have lived many years |
| what can be learnt from a fossil | what an animals diet was like years ago |
| what is a scientific journal | a journal where scientists publish their findings. |
| what is peer review | when other scientists send their work to each other to check it |
| what do fossils tell us about the age of rocks | they tell us the age of the rock layers e.g sedimentary |
| how a recent fossil find makes scientists question earlier explanations about evolution | if scientists thought that a certain animal ate meat but then a fossil of that animal showed that the teeth of that animal ate plants or if the animal adapted to have longer legs but the fossil showed the bones weren't strong enough to run |
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