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JeopardyVocabulary Types of
Fossils Misc. Becoming a Fossil
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Final Jeopardy
Types of Fossils 2
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$100 Question from Vocabulary
An animal track left in mud which after time turns into
rock.
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$100 Answer from Vocabulary
imprint
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$200 Question from Vocabulary
A group of living things that is no longer living.
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Extinct
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$300 Question from Vocabulary
The shape of a plant or animal left in sediments when the rock formed.
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Mold
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$400 Question from Vocabulary
The hardened remains of a living thing that died long
ago.
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$400 Answer from Vocabulary
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$500 Question from Vocabulary
A fossil that looks exactly like the
actual organism, but it is made
when mud or clay fills a mold.
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$500 Answer from Vocabulary
cast
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$100 Question from Types of Fossils
What type of fossil is shown below?
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$100 Answer from Types of Fossils
imprint
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$200 Question from Types of Fossils
What type of fossil is shown
above?
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$200 Answer from Types of Fossils
cast
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$300 Question from Types of Fossils
What type of fossil is shown above?
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$300 Answer from Types of Fossils
True to Form or Preserved Part
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$400 Question from Types of Fossils
What type of fossil is shown above?
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$400 Answer from Types of Fossils
mold fossil
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$500 Question from Types of Fossils
Which type of fossil looks just like an actual body part of a
once-living thing?
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$500 Answer from Types of FossilsCast Fossil
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$100 Question from Misc.What are organisms that lived during the time that dinosaurs lived and are still living today
called?
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$100 Answer from Misc.
Living Fossils
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$200 Question from Misc.What do mammoths and elephants have
in common?
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$200 Answer from Misc.
The both have tusks.
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$300 Question from Misc.Tree sap hardens and becomes __________.
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$300 Answer from Misc.
Amber
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$400 Question from Misc.If the fossil below was found in a desert, what does that tell you?
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$400 Answer from Misc.
The area used to be under water.
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$500 Question from Misc.If a fossil has really sharp
teeth, what can we infer that the organism ate?
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$500 Answer from Misc.Meat
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$100 Question from Types of Fossils 2
Which type of fossil is featured below?
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$100 Answer from Types of Fossils 2
Mold Fossil
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$200 Question from Types of Fossils 2
Which type of fossil is pictured below?
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$200 Answer from Types of Fossils 2
Petrified Wood
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$300 Question from Types of Fossils 2
Are plant fossils or animalfossils more common? Why?
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$300 Answer from Types of Fossils 2
Animal fossils – plant parts
are destroyed easier
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$400 Question from Types of Fossils 2
What type of fossil is pictured below?
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$400 Answer from Types of Fossils 2
Amber Fossil
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$500 Question from Types of Fossils 2
Which type of fossil is pictured below?
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$500 Answer from Types of Fossils 2
Cast Fossil
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$100 Question from Becoming a Fossil
In which type of rocks are fossils most
commonly found?
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$100 Answer from Becoming a Fossil
Sedimentary
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$200 Question from Becoming a Fossil
What happens to the soft parts of an animal when it
dies?
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$200 Answer from Becoming a Fossil
They decompose or rot away.
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$300 Question from Becoming a Fossil
Why do fossils not form in metamorphic rocks very
often?
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$300 Answer from Becoming a Fossil
The fossil is destroyed under heat and pressure as the
metaphoric rock forms.
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$400 Question from Becoming a Fossil
Why don’t all fish become fossils?
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$400 Answer from Becoming a Fossil
Many answers… 1 reason is the fish couldhave been eaten by another animal.
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$500 Question from Becoming a Fossil
If an animal is eaten, will there be a fossil left behind?
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$500 Answer from Becoming a Fossil
No, there wouldn’t be anything leftto become a fossil.
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Final JeopardyHorseshoe crabs still
look like they did millions of years ago.
What can we infer about the horseshoe
crab fossil?
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Final Jeopardy Answer
It looks the same as a horseshoe crab does today.