Combined Science GCSE
Fossils
What Fossils means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Remains or traces of organisms preserved in rocks, ice or amber, whose age can be estimated from the rock layer in which they are found.
Preserved remains, impressions or traces of an organism that lived long ago, found in rocks or other preserved material.
The 'remains' of organisms from millions of years ago, which are found in rocks.
Topics that use Fossils
- Evidence for evolution (AQA GCSE)
- Fossils (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Antibiotic resistance
- Behaviour recorded by traces
- Common ancestry
- Comparing fossil and living structures
- Decay and preservation
- Evidence for relationships between organisms
- Evolution
- Extinction
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