Fossils?

• Biologie
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

How about fossils?

HOMOLOGOUS STRUCTURES

ANALOGOUS STRUCTURES

Learning goals 

• You can describe what a fossil is.
  
• You can explain how fossils are formed and distinguish the different steps of the process.
  
• You can explain how fossils help biologists to argue how life on earth has developed.
  
• You can explain what an index fossil is and how it helps palaeontologists in determining the age of a geological layer.

index fossils

fossils are found in a specific layer, of which we know how old it is

some fossils are found a lot in a specific layer. If you find a different fossil next to it, it's probably about the same age

Homework