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ScienceFossilTypes
Science Types of Fossils
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An imprint of anything on sediment that later hardens to rock. | Imprint Fossils |
| Minerals fill in many hollows, and this becomes a fossil. | Cast Fossils |
| Minerals replace wood or bone to create petrified wood or mineralized bone. | Mineralized Fossils |
| The remains of an organism can be trapped in ice for thousands of years, and this is a fossil. | Frozen Fossils |
| When the resin of some plants hardens it becomes amber, and it can have the remains of trapped insects in it. | Fossils in Amber |