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