Memory Game FOSSILS AND EXTINCTION MEMORY Online version Match each vocabulary word with its definiton. by Krystin Lawhorn An animal that eats both plants and meat. Extinct A fossil dig site located in the middle of Los Angeles. They have found over 1 million fossils there. About 50,000 years ago, many animals were trapped here in a sticky black substance that oozes from cracks in the earth’s surface (asphalt). Animals got stuck and were preserved as fossils. A scientist that studies fossils. An animal that eats plants. La Brea Tar Pits A living thing that is no longer found alive anywhere on earth today. Herbivore Omnivore Carnivore A type of wolf that lived in North America, but went extinct about 10,000 years ago. Its teeth are larger than wolves of today and it ate horses, ground sloths, mastodons, bison, and camels! Remains or traces of plants and animals that lived a long time ago. Paleontologist An animal that eats meat. Microfossil Plaster of Paris A white powder that hardens when mixed with water and allowed to sit. It is used to make sculptures, molds and casts for broken bones. Fossil A huge cat with two long, saber-shaped teeth that it used for hunting. It went extinct about 11,000 years ago and fossils of it are found in places like the La Brea Tar Pits. Dire Wolf Saber-Toothed Cat A small fossil that typically can be studied only with a microscope. It can be a piece of a large plant or animal or small bones of things like lizards and rodents.
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