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Fossil definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Perminerlized remains | fossils in which the spaces inside are filled with minerals from groundwater |
| Fossil | reamins,imprints,or traces of prehistoric organisms that can tell when and where oraganism once lived and how they lived |
| carbonfilm | thin film of carbon residue preserved asa fossil |
| mold | a type of body fossil that forms in rock when an organism with hard partsis buried,decaysor dissolves,andleaves a cavity in the rock |
| cast | a type of body fossil that formswhen crystals fill a mold or sediments wash into amold and hardens a rock |
| index fossil | remains of species that existed on earth for a relatively short period of time, were adundant and widespread geographically and can be used bygeologist to assign the ages of rock layers |
| principle of superpostion | states that in undistured rodk layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom and the rock becomes progressively yonger toward the top |