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Are fossils the traces or remains of organisms that lived long ago?
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Answer by Ibrahim El-Osery
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Yes, fossils are the traces and remains of organisms and plants that were buried and maintained under pressure
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∙ 14y agoThe remains, imprints, or traces of once-living organisms are called fossils. (to be more specific they are called trace fossils)
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∙ 9y agoYes, fossils are the traces and remains of organisms and plants that were buried and maintained under pressure.
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Which of the following can fossils teach us about the earth?
Fossils indicate several things about Earth's past: - the organisms that lived then, and by extension the organisms in their food chain - the climate in the area where the organism lived - how plate tectonics have moved landmasses that once were joined together
What are fossils and what do they tell us about the process of evolution?
Fossil the dead remains of plants and animals that lived in the past is know as fossil.
What are the conditions needed for an index fossil to form?
An index fossil is formed from the remains of an animal that evolved and lived for a precisely defined (and hopefully short) period of time, they are used to define and identify geologic periods. The best index fossils are wide spread (globally) and numerous (commonly found). They frequently (but not always) bottom dwelling or burrowing organisms with hard parts to their body structure because such organisms are most likely to regularly leave remains that can be fossilized.
What is index fossils?
are the remains of specics that existed on rath for short periods of time are the remains of specics that existed on rath for short periods of time the REAL defintion: a fossil known to have lived in a paritcular geologic age that can be used to date rock layer in which is found
Where were fossils of carnotaurus sastrel recently found?
As I konow they lived in Patagonia, Argentina, so probbably fossils were found there.
What are traces or remains of organisms that lived in the past?
Fossils are proof of organisms that lived long ago
What is is the preserved remains or traces of an organisms that lived in the past?
fossil.
Preserved remains or traces of living things?
a fossil is a preserved remain or trace of an organism that lived in the past
Why are fossils rarley found in igneous rocks?
Fossils are the remains or traces of animals or plants and are normally found in rocks which used to be sediments at the bottom of a body of water in which they lived or were swept into. None of these living organisms were able to live in molten magma which is what most igneous rocks used to be.
Why don't we find fossils in igneous and metamorphic rocks?
Fossils are remains or impressions of living organisms and they are found in the sediments in or near where they lived. Living organisms cannot live in a molten magma which cools to become an igneous rock. Metamorphic rocks used to be sedimentary and igneous rocks but they were buried very deep under mountains and any traces of fossils in the sedimentary layers have been removed by the heat and pressure which altered the rock.
Why are fossils formed in sedimentary rocks but not in igneous rocks?
Because sedimentery rock is formed under the sea, sediment collects at the bottom of the ocean, and so does a few dead sea creatures, then t gets squashed by other sediment, igneous rock is formed by lava cooling, so there is no fossils in it.
Is the preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.?
fossil.
The remains of a once living thing?
Fossils are the remains of plants and animals that have been turned to stone.
What is the remains of any creature that once lived on the earth?
Fossils
A part or imprint of something that was once alive?
It is a fossil example { a Dino, a fish, ext } something that lived long ago
What do fossils tell scientists about living things?
Fossils reveal what organisms lived before us.
Clues to which organisms lived in different eras are found in?
fossils
