Name: Online Fossil Lab Fossil Formation How Fossils Form 1. Describe the process in which fossils form. Period: 2. What is a Mold? 3. What is a cast? Getting into the Fossil Record 4. What is the fossil Record? 5. What does the word fossil mean? 6. Who are Paleontologists? 7. What are fossils? 8. What are Trace fossils? 9. List the different kinds of fossils. 10. Explain why burial of fossils is so important. 11. What are the different processes that can make fossils? 12. What ways can live things become fossils? 13. Why are hard parts of animals more likely to become fossils? 14. Which environments are more likely to produce fossils? 15. Why is the fossil record not complete? 16. What things can happen to a fossil to destroy or change it?
17. What rock will paleontologists most likely find fossils? Fossil hunt 18. Play the game and draw your dinosaur and write down your score. Fossil Fun 19. (Burying bones) Which environment is the best to make fossils? 20. (Skeleton Jigsaw) Draw your animal below. 21. (Making Fossils) What are the best scenarios for making fossils? 22. (Footprints game) What can footprints tell us about behavior?
Trapped in Amber 23. What is special about finding fossils in amber? 24. Why do scientists collect fossils in amber? 25. What things can you learn from fossils in amber? 26. What things can you learn from the amber insects?(fig Wasp)(Army Ant) 27. Why do you think you don t find birds and mammals in amber? 28. What did scientist learn about dinosaurs by studying the sand fly or mosquitos? Shasta s Sticky Story 29. Who is Shasta? 30. Where does Shasta live? 31. What kind of animals alive today are most like Mammoths? 32. How do the bones get into the asphalt? 33. How does the asphalt trap animals? 34. Do you think fossils from asphalt are mineralized like in rock or preserved like in amber? Fossil man 35. How much time to fossils takes to form? What fossils tell us? I am a Paleontologist 36. Who are Paleontologists? 37. What do they study? 38. Where do Paleontologists find fossils? 39. Why are finding fossils like a puzzle?
Life Has a History 40. How many species does scientist believe to be living on earth today? 41. List the most abundant type of living things on earth to the smallest group. 42. Describe and draw life in the oceans 470 million years ago. 43. Describe and draw life in the oceans 160 million years ago. 44. Describe and draw life in the oceans today. 45. Fill in the time line and write down the order of life appearing on earth. 46. What evidence do Paleontologist use to verify the time line? 47. Click on the three fossils and draw and describe them. 48. How are birds related to dinosaurs? What evidence do we have? 49. What is variation? 50. Describe some animals that are now extinct. Stories from the Fossil Record 51. (Paleontology) What do Paleontologists do? 52. (Paleontology) What can Paleontologists tell us from the fossil record? 53. (Past Lives) What can fossils tell us about extinct organisms? 54. (Past Lives) List all the things you can learn from fossils.
55. (Geologic Time) What have we learned from fossils? 56. (Geologic Time) How do fossils help date rocks? 57. (Biodiversity) What is Biodiversity? 58. (Biodiversity) How are Birds and Dinosaurs related? Finding Dinosaurs in Utah 59. What time periods did dinosaurs live in Utah? 60. Where can you find dinosaur tracks in Utah? 61. What should you do if you find a fossil? A Sticky Puzzle 62. Complete the puzzle and draw what the final picture looks like. Rock of Ages Understanding Geologic time 63. Why is it so hard for humans to understand the concept of geologic time? 64. What are the major events and their dates of life on earth? 65. Draw the time line and dates of life on earth? 66. What is Relative time and Absolute time found in rocks? 67. How do scientists date rocks?
How Old is Rock 68. Explain Relative and Absolute dating. 69. What is superposition? Ice Ages 70. Describe and draw how ice ages can effect layers of rock. Layers of the Grand Canyon 71. Describe and Draw the layers of the grand canyon. 72. Why are the layers not perfectly flat and go from youngest to oldest? Unconformity 73. What is Unconformity? Utah Through Time 74. How has Utah changed in the last 570 million years? 75. Describe Utah in each time period shown. Describe and give characteristics. Fossil Basketball 76. Play the game and write down your score. /10. End of Lab Survey 77. Take the end of lab survey and submit.