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Fossils
4th Grade Science Standard 4 Utah
Question | Answer |
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Climate | Weather of an area. A desert is a dry climate. |
Dinosaur | A group of large, extinct reptiles like animals. |
Environment | All of the conditions and surroundings. The fern grew in a warm. |
Extinct | No longer living. Such as dinosaurs. |
Extinction | The process of dying out. |
Fossil | The hardened remains of a plant or animal from long ago. |
Impression | An imprint. Their foot made an ____ in the wet soil. |
Infer | To make a conclusion from what is known. we can ______ that dinosaurs existed because of fossils. |
Mineral | A naturally occurring, inorganic, crystalline substance that is made up of elements. Rocks are composed of these also. |
Organism | Any living thing. |
Paleontologist | A person who studies fossil remains. |
Prehistoric | Before recorded history. |
Preserved | Kept from rotting. |
Replacement | To take the place of. Minerals take the place of the bird's feathers in the fossil. |
Sedimentary | Rock formed from material that settles. |
Trilobite | A fossilized sea animal. |
Tropical | A warm, moist region. They went to a tropical island near the equator. |