| Term | Definition |
|---|
| fossil | any part or trace of a living organism that is naturally preserved after it dies |
| materials that may contain fossils | amber, ice, tar pits |
| decompose | to rot away |
| petrified fossils | fossils that are made when bone or wood is replaced by minerals that harden into rock |
| mold | an imprint that is pressed into a rock and leaves by a organism |
| carbon film | a dark image made from plants pressed in rock |
| amber | a hardened yellow plant sap that a plant and animal can be fossilized in |
| cast | formed when sediment fills in the empty spaace ina a mold and produces a copy of the shape of an organism |
| trace fossil | a fossil that contains a part of an organism |
| evolutionists | people who believe that life on earth developed gradually, or evolved |
| creationists | people who believe that God spoke and made the earth and all forms of life in six days |
| paleontologists | scientists who study fossils |
| preparators | paleontologists who clean fossils |
| paleontology | the scientific study of fossils |
| protective coating | fragile bones are painted with this |
| good places to look for fossils | cliffs, beaches, and deserts |
| carbon-dating | a method that is not exact for determining when fossilized plants and animals lived |
| When putting bones together | scientists base their guesses on how modern animals look. |
| excavation | removing the fossil from the rock around it |
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