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Game about patterns in fossils and rock formations

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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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How are body fossils formed?

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

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

Sediment

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

Geologic time scale

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Fossils can tell scientists about environments on Earth a long time ago. Is this true or false?

True

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The types of organisms that are fossilized in a layer give clues about what the land was like. Is this true or false?

True

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Pollens cannot form fossils. Is this true or false?

False

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What are index fossils?

Fossils found in the same rock layers

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Fossils found in the same rock layers

Index fossils

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What is a sediment?

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

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

Fossils

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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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What is a key bed?

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

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It is a layer of rock that scientists can clearly identify

Key bed

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