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What type of rock will most likely contain the fossils of animals that once lived in the ocean?
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sedimentary rock
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What information can artifact and fossils provide?
Fossils can show the kind of environment animals lived in millions of years ago. They can also show how certain animals have evolved. Artifacts can show the kind of society humans lived in at a certain time.
The remains of a once living thing?
Fossils are the remains of plants and animals that have been turned to stone.
What on earth does a paleontologist work in?
: the science that deals with the fossils of animals and plants that lived very long ago
What type of clues can fossils provide about earths history?
Fossils help us learn about the past, like if a fish fossil was in your backyard, then your backyard was covered with water. They also help us with the fossils where the setting was then, and what animals lived there.
How can fossils help geologists match rock layers?
If the fossils that the scientists find are very evolutionarily similar, for example, if they are the same species or genus, then that means that the sedimentary rock layers have some correlation to each other since the two extinct animals that turned into the fossils most likely lived during the same time period. This hints that the two rock layers were both exposed to the atmosphere during the same time period.
What is the name for the remains of plants and animals that lived a long time ago?
fossils
What information can artifact and fossils provide?
Fossils can show the kind of environment animals lived in millions of years ago. They can also show how certain animals have evolved. Artifacts can show the kind of society humans lived in at a certain time.
What general rype of rock is most likely to contain foassils?
Sedimentary rock, because it was once a sediment in or around which animals or plants once lived.
What do fossils tell us about Kansas geologic past?
they tell us that past animals were once on and lived in kansas. they tell us that past animals were once on and lived in kansas.
The remains of a once living thing?
Fossils are the remains of plants and animals that have been turned to stone.
What prehistoric animals that lived in Illinois?
Indeed they did. Of course, it wasn't Illinois then, but they walked over the same area of the Earth. Dinosaur fossils aren't much found there now, because the kinds of rocks they fossilized in are mostly out west. You can find fossils in Illinois, but they're found animals and plants that lived before the dinosaurs.
What on earth does a paleontologist work in?
: the science that deals with the fossils of animals and plants that lived very long ago
What are index fossils useful for?
Because organisms that became index fossils lived only during specific intervals of geologic time, geologists can estimate the ages of rock layers based on the particular index fossils they contain.
Why are so many fossils found in the badlands?
because of climate change. Climate change killed the animals that lived there
Where do scholars get information about animals that lived during prehistoric times?
Fossils and other naturally preserved parts of their bodies.
How mountains on land can be composed of rock that contain fossils of animals that lived in ocean?
Uplift of sedimentary layers caused be continental drift and collisions push the oceanic fossils skyward.
What type of clues can fossils provide about earths history?
Fossils help us learn about the past, like if a fish fossil was in your backyard, then your backyard was covered with water. They also help us with the fossils where the setting was then, and what animals lived there.
