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What is the best method of studying an extinct animal?
By studying fossils of their remains from the past
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What are two features that helped a wooly mammoth survive the harsh conditions?
Its fur kept it warm. Its flat teeth were used to chomp and digest plants. Its size helped it fend off predators.
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What is the first step in an animal becoming a fossil?
It has to be dead for a very long time.
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What is is one importance of studying fossils?
They tell us about the history of the earth
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True or false: Every animal or plant that dies becomes a fossil
False
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True or false: It only takes a few years for fossils to form.
False - it takes billions of years.
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What are two characteristics a scientist can know about an extinct animal by studying its fossils?
Its size and what it ate
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What animal part forms a fossil?
The bones.
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What is the third step in an animal becoming a fossil?
Sand, silt, or soil covers the bones.
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What is something that has to happen to for an animal to become a fossil?
It has to be dead for a very long time
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A scientist found a fish fossil in the mountains. What can the scientist conclude about this discovery?
That area used to be under water.
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What is the fourth step in an animal becoming a fossil?
Pressure from all the sand and silt over thousands of years press against the bones and the fossil is formed.
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A leaf was found in a rock. What can you conclude about how this fossil was formed?
The leaf fell into the soil and later became a rock.
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What is the second stop of an animal becoming a fossil?
Its soft tissue decays.
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