Across
- 2. some insect fossils are trapped in this rock made from tree sap. (5)
- 5. sediment which is most likely to preserve a fossil (3)
- 7. a fossil that looks like a spiral or ram's horns (8)
- 8. biological sedimentary rock formed from plant remains (4)
- 11. The kind of rock that you are most likely to find fossils in (11)
- 12. _____ fossils include footprints, burrows or droppings (5)
- 15. science of studying ancient life (12)
- 17. preserved in hot, dry conditions (9)
- 18. ____ wood. A permineralised piece of wood. (9)
- 19. The process of exchanging the remains of an animal or plant with minerals (17)
Down
- 1. preserved in snow or ice (6)
- 3. Sedimentary rock formed from sand deposits (9)
- 4. famous meat-eating dinosaur Tyrannosaurus _____ (3)
- 6. not preserved
- 9. sedimentary rock formed from deposits of shells (9)
- 10. what creatures did dinosaurs evolve into? (5)
- 11. sedimentary rock made from clay deposits (5)
- 12. extinct marine arthropod, which has a distinctive fossil (9)
- 13. most likely cause of extinction of dinosaurs (8)
- 14. cavity in the rock that shows the shape of the hard parts of a fossil. (5)
- 16. kind of fossil where an animal or plant leaves an imprint in the mud
