Directions: Answer in complete sentences.

1. What is a fossil? What questions can the fossil record help us to answer? ____________________

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2. Describe the difference between a body fossil and a trace fossil. ______________________________

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3. Why are organisms that are buried rapidly more likely to fossilize? Why? ______________________

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4. In what type of rock would you most likely find fossils? Why? ______________________________

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5. Describe three geologic forces that could destroy a fossil. ___________________________________

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