Across
- 3. The gradual destruction or diminution of something.
- 6. when a fossil mold underground is filled with sediment to form a fossil
- 7. the conversion of organic matters like plants and dead animal remains into carbon through destructive distillation
- 9. types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface
- 10. a scientist who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record.
Down
- 1. the process of a once living organism becoming a fossil
- 2. the process by which organic matter exposed to minerals over a long period is turned into a stony substance.
- 4. a fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than of the animal itself.
- 5. The mineralized impression of the organism left in the sediment
- 8. any of various hard natural resins