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Evidence Chart: Evidence What It Tells Us

The document provides directions for explaining what pieces of evidence from a website about stories from the fossil record tell us about past lives, geologic time, paleoecology, and biodiversity. It includes an evidence chart listing various types of evidence such as growth rings in fossil trees, layers in rocks, fossil shells on mountain tops, and tooth marks in fossil shells. The evidence chart describes what each piece of evidence indicates about topics like the number of years an individual lived, the order of rock layers, where organisms lived in the past, and changes in life forms over time.

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Evidence Chart: Evidence What It Tells Us

The document provides directions for explaining what pieces of evidence from a website about stories from the fossil record tell us about past lives, geologic time, paleoecology, and biodiversity. It includes an evidence chart listing various types of evidence such as growth rings in fossil trees, layers in rocks, fossil shells on mountain tops, and tooth marks in fossil shells. The evidence chart describes what each piece of evidence indicates about topics like the number of years an individual lived, the order of rock layers, where organisms lived in the past, and changes in life forms over time.

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Recorder Day 1: ___________________________ Recorder Day 2: 

_________________________ 
Directions: As you visit the different pages of the ​
Stories from the Fossil Record ​
website 
(​
http://goo.gl/lf9bMX​
) explain what each of the pieces of evidence tells us 

Evidence Chart 
Evidence What it tells us:
Past Lives 

1. growth rings in fossil trees or shells  Growth rings tell us the number of years that individual lived. 

2. curled up fossil trilobites    
 
 

3. the contents of fossil nests   
 
  

4. fossils of many individuals of the   
same species together   
  

5. a change in the shape of a feature   
over time   
  

Geologic Time 

1. layers in the rocks   
 
  

2. index fossils   
 
  

3. fossil shells on mountain tops   
 
 
  

4. identical fossils on widely separated   
continents   
 
  
Evidence What it tells us:
Paleoecology 

1. fossil marine animals in the desert   
 
 
  

2. shapes of leaf edges   
 
 
  

3. tooth marks in fossil shells   
 
 
  

4. fossil pollen   
 
 
  

Biodiversity 

1. fossils of organisms no longer alive   
today   
 
  

2. features that are shared by more   
than one species   
 
  

3. the extinction of many fossil species   
at the same time   
 
  

4. the extinction of one group of   
organism, like corals, on which other   
organisms depend   
 
 

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