Rock Cycle - Past Life (3)
 Lab 

PROBLEM: What information is available from fossil animals?

PREDICTION:

EXERCISE 1. Look at the fossils. Try and figure out what type of animal it was (guess) and how it became a fossil. Your teacher will give you some hints.

Fossil

Type of animal and fossilization

trilobite

 

ammonite

 

shark teeth

 

dinosaur bone

 

crinoid stem

 

irregular echinoderm

 
sting ray teeth
petrified wood
mollusk fossil
brachiopod

orthoceras

 

CONCLUSIONS: In how many ways can an organism become a fossil? 

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