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3rd Grade Fossils worksheets

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Fossils

Grade 3 Science Worksheet - Challenge Me

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

Scientists use the coil of this sea animal's shell to tell how old a rock is. Name:
This rock is far from any water today, but it holds an animal that swam. Name:
This fossil is the print of a green plant that grew in wet, shady places. Name:
This sea animal had a body in three lobes, and it lived long before dinosaurs. Name:
This is a trace fossil: it shows what an animal did, not what its body looked like. Name:
Hard parts last longest, so the animal's soft body is gone and only this hard covering is left. 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.