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What 3 ways can you identify a trace fossil?

You can identify them by what IS the fossil. The 3 fossils are prints, coprolite, or smooth rocks corroded by gizzards.


List several ways in which fossils can be made?

Fossils can form by: Freezing Amber Asphalt Carbonization


How do humans affect landforms?

what are three ways that people have changed the land in our country


How many different ways can fossils form?

When most people think of fossils they think of dinosaur skeletons and large bones, but there are many different types of fossils to be found. Palaeontologists, people who study fossils, divide them into two major types - body fossils and trace fossils. Body fossils show us what a plant or animal looked like. The first type, body fossils, are the fossilised remains of an animal or plant, like bones, shells and leaves. These can be mould and cast fossils, like most of the fossilised dinosaur skeletons and big bones we see, replacement fossils, like petrified wood, or whole body fossils - mammoths caught in ice, or insects trapped in amber. Petrified wood, frozen mammoths, and insects in amber are all body fossils. The second type of fossil records the activity of an animal. Known as trace fossils, these include footprints, trackways, and coprolites (fossil poo!). Footprints and coprolite are trace fossils - they show us how an animal lived.


What is the difference between trace fossils and original fossils?

Body fossils are any fossil that comes from the animal itself. Examples of body fossils are fossilized skin, bone, teeth, claws, eggs, embryos etc. Trace fossils are any fossil connected to ancient life but not the animal itself. Examples include footprints, teethmarks, nests, gizzard stones, coprolites, burrows etc. In a lot of ways trace fossils are as important as body fossils. The give us insight into how the animal lived, how fast it walked, what ate what etc.