Types Of Fossils

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Across
  1. 2. Animals can become trapped due to freezing temperatures solidifying their body in a cold, glass like material.
  2. 3. Groundwater carries dissolved minerals into pores and cavities of bone, wood, etc. Protects and doesn't replace bones, teeth and shells
  3. 6. Animals can become trapped in a rubbery like liquid, and become completely submerged, preserving the whole body.
  4. 7. Organisms die and there is no filling of the cavity with minerals.
  5. 8. Is excreted from certain plants which protects them from insects and seal plant's injuries. Capture insects, preserving them and DNA.
  6. 10. The process which all substances of dead organic matter except carbon. Leaves a carbon film on top of the organism(s)
Down
  1. 1. Happens when water dissolves the original solid material and replaces it with calcite and other similar minerals. Happens slowly.
  2. 4. Provides indirect evidence of life in the past instead of an organism such as footprints, feces, burrows, and tracks.
  3. 5. Results in organic material converting into stone or similar substances.
  4. 9. Organism dies, letting cavities fill with minerals.