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Forms when sediments bury an organism and the sediments change into rock; the organism decays leaving a cavity in the shape of the organism.
a) preserved
b) cast
c) mold
d) carbonized

forms when a mold is filled with sand or mud that hardens into the shape of the organism.
a) carbonized
b) cast
c) fossilized
d) trace

forms when minerals soak into the buried remains, replacing the remains, and changing them into rock.
a) pertified
b) cast
c) mold
d) form

forms when entire organisms or parts of organisms are prevented from decaying by being trapped in rock, ice, tar, or amber.
a) petrified
b) pulverized
c) pancaked
d) preserved

forms when organisms or parts, like leaves, stems, flowers, fish, are pressed between layers of soft mud or clay that hardens squeezing almost all the decaying organism away leaving the carbon imprint in the rock.
a) calved
b) carbonized
c) conformed
d) trace

forms when the mud or sand hardens to stone where a footprint, trail, or burrow of an organism was left behind.
a) purchased
b) pressed
c) drawn
d) trace

life on the planet has progressed from
a) basic to begining
b) start to finish
c) simple to complex
d) complicated to basic

Scientists order fossils according to age to create the
a) law of superposition
b) fossil record
c) radioactive dating
d) biologic timescale

Fossils can tell us
a) about past life and the climates they lived in
b) how long ago the earth was formed
c) how to predict future events
d) how elements form

fossils are not found in any rock layers above where the last one was found show that the organism has
a) sank through the other layers
b) been abducted
c) gone extinct
d) was not tall enough to reach any higher layers

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