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How might a mold or cast of a fossil help scientist to interpret the type of EnviroNment it lived in?
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It might be able to show what kind of organism lived in the past, how the organisms and the environment have changed over time.
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When scientist find fish fossils buried in deserts what do you think scientist might infer from such a find?
Probably because the land where the fish fossils are found was once under the sea.
The first scientist to study plankton was?
Victor Hensen was the first scientist to study plankton. He was a German zoologist and lived from 1835 to 1924.
What 3 requirements do index fossils have?
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The years in which the scientist lived and worked?
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What fossil records tell about seedless plants that lived on earth long ago?
Who is the greatest scientist to have ever lived?
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The people in Arabia lived in what type of environment?
people in Arabia lived in what type of environment
What fossil lived for the longest period of time?
pelozic
The oldest fossil organism found lived approximately how many years ago?
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Who is the greatest scientist that ever lived?
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What word refers to traces of an organism that existed in the past?
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