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fossil facts 7063A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| FOSSILS | remains inmprints or traces of prehistoric organisms that can tell when and where organisms once lived and how they lived |
| perminalized remains | fossils in which the spaces inside are filled with minerals from ground water |
| carbon film | thin film of carbon residue preseved as a fossil. |
| mold | a type of body fossil that forms when an organism with hard parts is buried,decayed por dissovled and leaves a cavity in the rock. |
| cast | a tyoe of body fossil that forms when crystals fill a mold or sediments wash into a mold and harden into a rock. |
| index | |
| FOSSILS | remains inmprints or traces of prehistoric organisms that can tell when and where organisms once lived and how they lived |
| perminalized remains | fossils in which the spaces inside are filled with minerals from ground water |
| carbon film | thin film of carbon residue preseved as a fossil. |
| mold | a type of body fossil that forms when an organism with hard parts is buried,decayed por dissovled and leaves a cavity in the rock. |
| cast | a tyoe of body fossil that forms when crystals fill a mold or sediments wash into a mold and harden into a rock. |
| index fossils | remains of species that existed on earth for a realativly short period of time, were abdundant and widespread geographically and can be used by geologist to assugn the ages of rock layers |
| principle of superposition | states that in undistured rock layers the oldest rocks are on the bottom and the rocks |