Title:
Explore fossils! / Cynthia Light Brown & Grace Brown ; illustrated by Bryan Stone.
ISBN:
9781619303317
9781619303355
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
White River, Vermont : Nomad Press, [2016]
©2016
Physical Description:
92 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
General Note:
"With 25 great projects"--Front cover.
Contents:
From the rocks -- Clues to the past -- Plants and microbe fossils -- Animals, including humans! -- Plant-eating dinosuars -- Meat-eating dinosaurs -- Boom and bust -- How paleontologists work.
Summary:
"Introduces readers to the study of dinosaurs and the history of life on Earth as revealed by fossils. Through hands-on projects, vocabulary boxes, and high-interest content, children discover how fossils form and learn about the landscape and the plants and animals that lived long ago. Scientists use radiometric dating to test these fossils to discover when they were made, what organisms made them, what those organisms used for energy, what killed them, and a whole lot of other information."--Page 4 of cover.
Subject Term:
Audience:
860L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn913304826
Availability:
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