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3rd Grade Fossils worksheets

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Fossils

Grade 3 Science Worksheet

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Write the name of each fossil: footprint, fish, shell, fern, ammonite, or trilobite.

Long ago this animal died in a lake, and its bones were pressed into mud that became rock. Name:
This plant fossil has a long stem with small leaflets on both sides. Name:
This small sea animal had a hard shell in three sections, and many have been found in rock. Name:
This sea animal had a coiled shell, and its fossil looks like a spiral in the rock. Name:
The ridged outside of a sea animal can become a fossil. Name:
This fossil shows where an animal walked long ago. Name:

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About this worksheet

A fossil is the print or the remains of a plant or an animal that lived a very long time ago, kept in rock. Most fossils are hard parts such as shells and bones, because soft parts rot away, and some, like footprints, are traces that show what an animal did. Scientists read fossils to learn what lived on Earth long ago and what a place was like then: a fish fossil in a desert rock shows that the land was once under water.

On this sheet a third grader looks at six fossil pictures and writes the name of each one from a clue sentence. The names are listed in the instruction, so the work is reading the clue and matching it to the picture. Ask your child what the rock was like when the animal or plant died.