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Name five ways that organisms can be preserved as fossils and explain what fossils can show about earths history

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Fossils form in five ways: preservation of original remains, permineralization, molds and casts, replacement, and compression. Rock formations with exceptional fossils are called very important for scientists to study.

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User Lex Podgorny
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Answer:

*freezing

*burial

*permineralization

*molds

*clay

Step-by-step explanation:

Fossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the past. Fossils are important evidence for evolution because they show that life on earth was once different from life found on earth today.

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