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Construct a paper over all of the information covered during this section. Write about what you learned, what you found interesting, and what you did not like.

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Use picture overlay to complete a drawing on the iPad app.

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Fossils provide a valuable record of the plant and animal life and environmental conditions from millions, even billions of years ago. In this lesson, students create their own fossils, and then use multimedia resources to learn how real fossils form and what scientists can learn from them.

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Fossils are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived long ago. Fossils give scientists clues about the past. For this reason, fossils are important to paleontology, or the study of prehistoric life.

Most fossils are found in earth that once lay underwater. They usually formed from the hard parts-such as shells or bones-of living things. After a living thing died, it sank to the bottom of the sea. Layers of earth and the remains of other living things built up on top of it. Over time, these layers turned into rock. Eventually, part or all of the living thing's hard parts also turned into rock. The fossil is the shape of these hard parts in the rock.

Other fossils are imprints on soft material that later hardened into rock. For example, scientists have found dinosaur footprints in rock that formed from mud.

Another kind of fossil can form after a small insect or a piece of a plant gets trapped in resin. (Resin is a sticky substance made by pine and fir trees.) When the resin hardens into a rocklike material called amber, the object inside is preserved.

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Fossils are the remains or traces of plants and animals that lived long ago. Fossils give scientists clues about the past. For this reason, fossils are important to...

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Fossils: Quiz & Worksheet for Kids | Study.com

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Fossils are the preserved remains of living things, such as animals and plants. These quiz questions will ask you all about the characteristics of fossils.

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What is a Fossil?

Fossils are the preserved remains of living organisms including insects, animals, and plants. Fossils can be as old as hundreds of millions of years old or as young as 10,000 years old. Scientists called paleontologists study fossils and create stories about the past by recreating environmental conditions through discovering ancient plants and animals.

Types of Fossils

There are typically two major types of fossils: trace fossils and body fossils. Trace fossils refer to fossils representing a trace of an organism. This includes footprints, egg shells, nests, and skin impressions. For example, one of the ways we know that many dinosaurs were covered in scales is by discovering fossilized skin impressions. Even poop can become fossilized! Scientifically, fossilized fecal remains are called coprolites and offer insight about past diets and subsistence.

Body fossils are more commonly what we think of when we think of fossils. These are the preserved remains of a body part of an animal as well as plant remains. Included in this category are skeletal remains, plant remains, like leaf impressions, and fossilized sea shells. When a tree becomes a fossil, it is called petrified wood.

How are Fossils Made?

Most fossils are formed by the process of permineralization. For this process to happen, an animal must die and be buried quickly by sediments, or tiny particles of sand, dirt, or volcanic ash. Next, groundwater fills up all of the empty space in the body as it decomposes, or breaks down. Since water is a solvent, it slowly dissolves all the organic material like skin, organs, and hair, and the minerals in the water replace the minerals in the bone. This, coupled with the pressure of the hardening sediments, turns the bone into stone.

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Fossil Facts: Lesson for Kids | Study.com

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Fossils are the preserved remains of living organisms including insects, animals, and plants. Fossils can be as old as hundreds of millions of years old or as young as 10,000 years old. Scientists called paleontologists study fossils and create stories about the past by recreating environmental conditions through discovering ancient plants and animals.