What can we learn from fossils?

1. What can we learn from fossils?

2. A dinosaur • Its an animal that lived on Earth millions of years ago. • Dinosaurs have become extinct.

3. A fossil • Its what left of an animal or plant that lived long ago. • A fossil can be a foot print in a rock. • Or bones that have turned to rock.

4. What do we learn from fossils? • Scientists use fossils to know what plants and animals of long ago looked like. • And it tells us what the places long ago looked like.

5. Woolly mammoths lines thousands of years ago, scientists have found their fossil bones and put them back together and knew how they looked like.

6. How Trilobite Fossil Form: • First , a trilobite died , then mud and sand covered it. • Next , the trilobite soft parts went away and the hard parts remained. • Then , the sand and the hard parts of the trilobite turned to rock. • Last , after millions of years scientist found the trilobite fossil.

8. Now put these sentences in the correct order: ……..Next ,the trilobite soft parts went away and the hard parts remained. ……..First,atrilobite died,then mud and sand covered it. ……..Last,aftermillions of years scientist found the trilobite fossil. ……..Then,thesand and the hard parts of the trilobite turned to rock.

9. Fossils may be found broken into pieces and scientist put them together.