How Fossils Are Formed

Cut out this template, then stick the six stages of fossilisation onto the template in the correct order.

Finally, fold along the dotted lines to make your fossil picture complete!

Top tip: Start by folding the middle line (a valley fold) and work outwards, making mountain folds, then valley folds, and so on.

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How Fossils Are Formed Answers

An animal dies. The skeleton is Over a very Minerals slowly Under lots of The earth is
Some parts of covered with long time, the fill the space in pressure, the eroded away
the body decay sand, earth, bones break layers, in the new minerals by the weather
and, usually, rock or seabed down and leave exact shape of harden or the sea. The
only the before the bones a space in the the bones. into rock. rock fossil is
skeleton is left. can disappear. earth, like an exposed and
empty mold. discovered.

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Under lots of The skeleton The earth is An animal Over a very Minerals
pressure, the is covered eroded away dies. Some long time, slowly fill
new minerals with sand, by the weather parts of the the bones the space in
harden earth, rock or or the sea. The body decay break down layers, in the
into rock. seabed before rock fossil is and, usually, and leave a exact shape of
the bones can exposed and only the space in the the bones.
disappear. discovered. skeleton is left. earth, like an
empty mold.