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What is a fossil?

They are mineralized remains or evidence of plants and animals that lived long ago

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What is a key bed?

It is a layer of rock that scientists can clearly identify.

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When many species go extinct at the same time

Mass extinction

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How are body fossils formed?

They form when the body of a dead plant or animal is covered in sediments.

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What is a mass extintion?

It happens when many species go extinct at the same time

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What is one famous example of a key bed?

A thin layer of clay that is called the K-T boundary

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What is this?

Geologic time scale

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What is a geologic time scale?

Fossils appear in rock strata in a certain order. This record tells how organisms have changed over time

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What do scientists use to identify key beds?

They use index fossils or characteristics unique to rock layers to identify the key bed

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They are the particles from death organisms, along with pieces of rock

Sediment

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It is a layer of rock that scientists can clearly identify

Key bed

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Layers of rock that have the same index fossils are not the same age. Is this true or false?

False

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Pollens cannot form fossils. Is this true or false?

False

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