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why do you think many animals and plants did not become fossils
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Why don't all dead plants and animals become fossils?
They are under Uberpressure and heat cannot be decomposed before they are covered by rocks. Most of the time they do rot away though.
Do most animals and plants that once lived on Earth have left fossil evidence?
yea most plants and animals do leave behind fossils. scientists have found many of them from the pre-historic eras.
Who Preserved remains of ancient organisms?
it depends on how and were they died for example plants turn into peat, then coal animals turn into fossils if they died in the mud or sand animals or plants that are frozen would keep their hair and organs and shape both plants and animals, if nothing happened and they were left out to the elements, would just disintegrate and rot in time
How can geologists tell about plants and animals that lived on earth a long time ago?
Well, most of the time geologists find fossils of plants and animals, and then study them to find out how long ago the plant(or animal) lived.
Why do most animals become a fossil?
Most animals do not become fossils because the conditions for fossilization are rare. Fossilization typically occurs when an animal is quickly buried in sediment and undergoes a process called mineralization, where minerals replace the organic material. Many animals decay or are consumed by scavengers before this process can occur. Only a small fraction of all organisms that have lived on Earth are preserved as fossils.
Where did most animals live that most fossils came from?
Europe
How did plants and animals that make up fossil fuels get their energy?
Most animals that became fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) were tiny plankton in the oceans. Coal was made from larger vegetation and possibly animals like archosaurs, the reptile ancestors of the dinosaurs.
How many plants and animals form fossils?
Only a small amount of plants and animals die and end up under the certain conditions needed to actually format a successful fossil. This is the most updated information. Scientists haven't yet discovered all fossils, do you might call this an estimate or guess. However, as said before, this is the most updated information that scientists have available due to lack of full discovery.
Why do scientists have been unable to find fossils of the first plants?
Because very specific conditions need to occur for fossils to both form and also survive through to the present day. Most dead animals and plants are not fossilized and many that were must have been subjected to erosion and other destructive processes. Many fossils which have formed and survived just haven't been found.
Why scientists believe that most animals would become extinct if all plants died?
bcause animals need oxygen 2 breathe & plants give off oxygen in exchange 4 CO2. & animals breathe out CO2.
Are there more plants or animals?
Short Answer:For most common meanings of the word fossil (mineralized remains of an organism), that the number of macroscopic (meaning large enough to see) fossils of animals far exceeds the number of macroscopic plant fossils.Its complicated:There is no easy way to count the number of plant or animal fossils or to compare their number. Attempting to compare the two requires a more specific criterion.There is no doubt that the number of large fossils of animals is much greater than the number of large fossils of plants. The process for preserving bones is more likely to result in a bone fossil than the process for preserving a leaf. A seashell is more likely to be preserved than kelp.For more discussion, see related questions.
What can animals not be preserved in as fossils?
Animals are not preserved as fossils. Fossils are imprints of the organism where the body has been replaced by rock minerals. They are most usually found in sedimentary rocks, occasionally in metamorphic rock but never in igneous rock.
