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The history of on earth
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7th Grade
02/27/2015

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  • Amber
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when trees sap hardens it becomes amber
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Fossil
Definition
The trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago
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Asphalt
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A mixture of dark bituminous pitch with sand or gravel
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Petrification
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Filling or replacement of an organism's tissues with minerals that have different cheimacal compositions that the original tissues did.
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Trace fossils
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Any fossilized evidence of animal activity
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coprolite
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Dinosaur poop
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Mold
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The impression left in sediment or in rock where a plant or animal was buried
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Cast
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An object that forms when sediment fills a mold and becomes rock
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Fossil Record
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The history of life in the geologic past as indicated by the traces or remains of living things
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Mold
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The impression left in sediment or in rock where a plant or animal was buried
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cast
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An object that forms when sediment fills a mold and becomes rock
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fossil record
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The histroy of life in the geologic past as indicated by the traces or remains of living things
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Index fossils
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fossils of organisms that lived during a relatively short, well-defined geoligic time span
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plate tectonics
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The theory that explains how earth's tectonic plates move and change shape
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