Earth's Biologic History (continued)

You've just learned about fossil fuels, but what makes something a "fossil?"

Standard:   Summarize how scientists study Earth’s past environment and diverse life-forms by examining different types of fossils (including molds, casts, petrified fossils, preserved and carbonized remains of plants and animals, and trace fossils). 

View the BrainPop called "fossils" and then copy and answer these questions.

1.  Why is fossilization rare?

2.  What are different types of fossils that can form and how are they each formed?  (This is a long answer!)

3.  What parts of an animal are most likely to become a fossil

4.  What can fossils teach us?

An extinct relative of the termite preserved in amber	Ammonite mold (left) and cast (right) fossils
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