The imprint of an organism that has been pressed into a rock - mold, The jobs that paleontologists includes - finding fossils and taking them to be studied, cleaning the fosssils nad preparing them from display, studying fossils, Excavation is the proces of ______ fossil from the rock around it - removing, The process of excavating a fossill includes - photographic, mapping the site, numbering the fossil, wrapping the fossils in foam, Even from an almost complete animal skeleton, a sientist can not know for sure - what muscles and eyes were like, Paleontologist who clearn fossils are called - preparators, It is difficult for an eolutionary sienctist to date fossils when he fins - complex and simple organisms in teh same rock layer, fossils are buried so that they cross more than on sediment layer, both creationary scientist and evolutionary scientist depend on _______ to date a fossil - worldview, Most fossils are about the same age since they were formed by the flood and the position of a fossil in a rock may show how the animal attempted to avoid the Flood's waters. - Creationist, Life began with simple one celled organizms which graduatlly changed to move complex forms of life - Evolutionist, In what ways doe the outward appearance of modern animals help palenontists - their outward appearance helps tell scientists what animal it was, How did evolutionary scientists date fossils - They see the fossil layers, How do creationary scientists date fossils - they date fossils from the flood, How did dinosaurs get their name - From greek words for terrible lizards and Richard Owen, What are dinosaurs - Extinct, cold blooded, land dweeling reptiles, Where have fossils of dinosaurs been found/ - All over the world, What does extinction mean? - Gone - the animal is dead and can't come back., What three things often cause extinction of plants and animals? - Disease, weather changes, and lack of food, How do we know that people and dinosaurs lived at the same time? - In genesis - the sixth day of creation., What information can scientists learn from dinosaur fossils - body shape, size, behavior, and diet, Why might dinosaurs have become extinct - limited food, drowned by the FLood, Climate changes after the flood., Any part or trace of a living organism that is naturally preserved after it dies is called - fossils, Fossils that we see today are clear evidence of - a world wide flood, Fossils can be found preserved in sedimentary rock, - amber, ice, permaforst, or tar, Plants and animals can be fossilized in a hardened yellow plant sap called - amber, Permanently frozen soil is called - permafrost, A copy of the shape of the organism formed by sediment that has been pressed into a mold - cast, a fossil that is not an actual part of an organism but of something that was left behind, such as footprint or dropping - trace fossil, a fosill formed when part of a plant or animal decayed underneath the weight of sediment and left an image of itself on a rock - carbon film, a fossil formed when part of a living organism decayed and was replayed by minerals that harden into a rock - petrified fossil,

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