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Fossils

Fossils are the remains of ancient plants and animals, with different types such as trace and cast fossils. Geologists study rocks while paleontologists focus on fossils, using index fossils to date rock layers. The fossil record shows that deeper layers contain older fossils, and the rock cycle describes how different rock types can transform into one another.

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Fossils

Fossils are the remains of ancient plants and animals, with different types such as trace and cast fossils. Geologists study rocks while paleontologists focus on fossils, using index fossils to date rock layers. The fossil record shows that deeper layers contain older fossils, and the rock cycle describes how different rock types can transform into one another.

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Fossils are the dead remains of plant and animal parts from millions of years ago.

Trace fossil
Hardened form of body traces
Cast fossil (such as eggs, droppings etc) in the
Hardened form of body in the sediments sediments
Activity 1 pg 111
Geologist is a scientist who Palaeontologist is a scientist who
studies rocks and soil studies fossils found in rocks.
Index fossils are the remains of organisms that lived for a short period of
time but were widespread across the Earth.

Scientists use them to determine the age of rock layers.


The fossil records is the collection of all known fossils and their
placement in rock layers over time.
Deeper layers = Older fossils (like pages from an ancient chapter).
Upper layers = Newer fossils (closer to the present).

Example: If scientists find a fossil of a trilobite in a deep rock layer and a dinosaur
fossil in a layer above it, they know that trilobites lived before dinosaurs.

dinosaur
fossil

trilobite fossil

older newer
Rock cycle
Rocks of one kind can change into rocks of another kind. This the rock cycle.

igneous rock sedimentary rock metamorphic rock

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