Name of student ________________

Teachers Name : Sumathi Murti

Class
:

Y7A2
Lesson No
Date

: 49
: 23-

8-2016(Tuesday)
Time

10.20am-11.30am
SERI OMEGA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
Subject
: Science
Topic
: 9 The Earth
Sub-Topic:
: Fossils
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What are fossils?
1. Fossils are the ....................or traces of a .................... or ................. that
lived many years ago.
2. They have been ............................ by natural processes. Usually only
the ......................... parts of the living

things

are

fossilized.

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How fossils are made?

3. Fossils form very rarely. Normally a dead animal is eaten, or it rots away.
But occasionally, one is .................... quickly by sand or mud-perhaps on a
river bed or under the sea.
4. Here the dead body is ..................... from animals that might eat it.
A ................. may then form. This can happen in several ways. The pictures
below show one method of fossil formation.

What do fossils tell us about the history of life on Earth?

5. ..................................................... collect and study fossils.
6. They use ................................ from fossils to help piece together the history
of life on Earth.

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7. Fossils tell us about the .............................. of animals and plants that lived
at different times, and about their .................................. environments.
8. All the evidence from fossils, taken together, is

the .........................................

Oldest plants
9. In 2010, .............................................and her team found fossils from the
earliest known land plants in .........................................
10. The plant lived more than ................. million years ago. The plants were
a type of .........................., which have no .................. or ......................
11. This new find suggests that all land plants may have ........................
from liverworts.

A modern liverwort
Oldest animals

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12.

In 2012, a team of palaeontologists discovered

....................................fossils in ......................... The fossils are the oldest

record of animal life ever found.
13. Scientists previously thought that animal life began
between ............................million years ago. These fossils could be up
to .................... million years old.

Fossils of
..........................are the earliest record of animal life ever found
Dinosaurs
14. Without fossils, we would not know about............................
The dinosaur......................, found in South .................,
is about ................ million years old. It was
close
to hatching when it was buried.

Fossilised dinosaur ................. tell

us what
dinosaurs .........., and about the
environments
they lived in.

Note!
What is a fossil?
A fossil is the preserved remains of a once-living organism.

How are fossils formed?

Fossils are formed when animals or plants are buried in sedimentary rocks.

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Practise
1. Explain why only very few plants and animals form fossils.
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2. Describe the stages by which a fossil form.
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3. Choose an example of a fossil find, and describe what scientists have learnt
as a result of it.
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4. Arrange the steps of fossil formation using the words given on the boxes
below:

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The fish is buried by mud and sediments.

After millions of years, more mud, sediment and sand piled up in layers
adding weight and pressure, turning the layers into rock.
Minerals help to preserve the bones and harden them.

A fish dies and sinks to the ocean floor.

The soft parts of the body rot away.

GLOSSARY

Metamorphic
rocks
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Sedimentary
rock
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Igneous
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rock

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Rock
cycle
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Coprolite
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Fossils

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Palaeontologist

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Vulcanologist

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