Rock Cycle - Past Life (2B)
 Lab 

PROBLEM: Is learning about living animals helpful in identifying fossils?

PREDICTION:

MATERIALS: snail, clam, scallop; fossil specimens

PROCEDURE: Look at each of the present day specimens and describe or draw what they look like. Look at the fossil specimen and draw the fossils you see.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Turritella

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rapana

 

 

 

 

 

 

moon snail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

abalone

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bivalve

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fossil Mollusk

CONCLUSION: How was it helpful to look at the present day specimens before you looked at the past life?

 

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