March 10,2022 1a and 1b Cornell notes

1A- chapter 1  Fossils tells story of animals

 Wasn’t for fossil we wouldn’t know about past animal and plant
species

Chapter 2  Animals were buried so air couldn’t reach them prevent from
decaying
 Animals trapped in resins long ago- trapped then hardened and
then became amber
 Museums have insects encased in amber
Chapter 3  Woolly mammoths found trapped in snow in north – decayed
when got broken out of ice tombs
Chapter 4  Fossil Footprints don’t get washed away mud hardens into solid
rock
Chapter 5  Fossils are hard part of remains from animal and plant
 Fossil may be a shell or a bone that has been remained
unchanged
 The tar in California reserve bones
Chapter 6  Ancient animal bones have petrified
 When an animal dies the soft art decay rather rapidly
 Petrified means turn into stone
 A petrified bone is not actually one that is turned to stone…the
bone was rebuilt into the stone.
Recalling questions Answers
1. amber C
2. fossil A
3. fossils provide B
4. woolly mammoths C
5. Petrified B
6. Fossil can be B
7. FOSSILS provide C
8. Danger to fossils B
9. Studying fossils C
10. CONCLUSION B

1B Bringing home the fossils

Chapter 1  Caren Chase has an exciting job
 Works in museum
 As a fossil preparer
 Travels to fossil locations
 Dig them up and ship them carefully
Chapter 2  LATEST CHIP TO Mongolia’s Gobi desert
 Best preserved dinosaur are found there
Chapter 3  Collects specimens herself
 Found a five inch lizard fossil on Gobi trip
 She brush off the sand then pace a gauze over it
 Coated otherside with plaster of paris
Chapter 4 Chipped away plaster carefully and expose the rock
Expose delicate fossil skeleton
To put on museum’s dialay of prehistoric life
QUESTIONS ANSWERS
Question 1 a. D
b. A
c. S
Question 2 a. O
b. F
c. F
Question 3 a. 3
b. 2
c. 1
Question 4 a. C
b. C
c. F
Question 5 a. M
b. B
c. N