Science
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paleontologist | A scientist who studies fossils to learn about plants and animals that lived long ago.
🗑
|
||||
| Fossil | Is what is left of a plant or animal that lived long ago.
🗑
|
||||
| Trace Fossil | Is evidence of a once living thing that has was left in mud and had hardened in to rock. (An example is footprints.)
🗑
|
||||
| Mold | When a living thing dies and lays on the ground the shape is left behind in the mud. As the body of the living thing disappears it leaves the shape of the once living thing. As he mud hardens it turns to rock and becomes a fossil.
🗑
|
||||
| Cast | Is the fossil that forms when mud fills in a Mold and hardens in to a rock making a reverse copy of the mold (Hint: when you look at a cast the shape comes out of the rock).
🗑
|
||||
| Bone Fossils | This is when an animal dies and its bones are buried deep in the ground. Over time minerals go into the bones and they harden this turns to rock and you have a fossil that is shaped exactly like the bone from the animal.
🗑
|
||||
| Extinct | Means something that no longer lives on Earth ( Dinosaurs are extinct.)
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Trembley_Thompson
Popular Science sets