Fossil Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST: body fossils: parts of the body of plants and animals that have become fossils, fuel: a material that is burned for energy, carbon dating: a method used by scientists to determine the age of fossils and other objects by measuring the amount of carbon-14 they contain, fossil record: the collection of all known fossils that provide evidence of past life on earth, fossils: the preserved remains of once living things (plants, animals), trace fossils: fossils that record the movement of animals, organisms: living things such as plants, animals, sedimentary: a term used to describe a species to no longer exists, petrify: to turn to stony or a stony substance, fossil fuel: a fuel that forms the remains of ancient animals and plants, paleontologist: someone who studies fossils and other things that lived long ago, preserve: to keep a fossil safe, extinct: when one kind of organism has died out everywhere on earth, decay: when an organism dies, slowly rotting, and then no longer exists, mold: an empty space in rock where something once was, imprint: a mark left in the rock or other materials by a living thing (plants or animals), cast: a copy of a mold's shape made of hardened minerals.