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Rock Cycle and Fossils Quiz Review
Use your Fossil Notes graphic organizer, BrainPop Fossil worksheet, online fossil lab, Bill Nye: Fossil questions/answers,
your rock cycle illustration and your SRA passage and questions to complete the crossword puzzle.
Across
2. __________ fossils form when a mold is filled with sand/mud and hardens into the shape of the decayed organism.
5. Magma is ___________ to form igneous rock.
9. The __________ ____________ is evidence that shows us that today's organisms descended from a common
ancestor.
11. _________ fossils provide the missing evolutionary link between two species. The fossil of the Tiktaalik provided the
link between land and water organisms.
13. Which type of body parts are more likely to fossilize? Hard parts of soft parts?
14. __________ is one type of fossil fuel.
15. The __________ __________ is a never-ending set of processes that change Earth's rocks.
16. __________ fossils, also known as body fossils, are remains of an entire organism or parts of an organism that has
been buried and prevented from decaying.
19. Hardened tree sap is also known as ___________.
20. _________ rocks are formed when magma is cooled and hardened.
21. Sedimentary rocks that are exposed to heat and pressure can form ___________ rocks.
22. The combination of heat and ______________ can turn a fossil into fossil fuels.
Down
1. ___________ fossils are formed when and organism leaves behind an imprint such as a footprint, bite marks, or
waste.
3. Most fossils are found in ______________ rocks.
4. ________ fossils are formed when sediments bury an organism and change the organism into rock, eventually, the
organism decays leaving behind an impression of itself.
6. Fossils are evidence of evolution as well as __________ ____________.
7. True or False, in order for a fossil to form, an organism must be buried quickly after it dies.
8. The skull of a woolly mammoth found in a tar pit is an example of what kind of fossil?
10. __________ fossils form when minerals soak into the remains of an organism and turn the remains into rock.
12. True or False, a mold fossil can form without the presence of a cast fossil.
17. An animal's ________ can be determined by observing the teeth of its fossil remains.
18. _____________ fossils are formed by a thin coat of carbon, left by the decayed organism on a rock.