AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Fossils are the remains or traces of ancient life that have been preserved by natural processes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fossils are the preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments, such as sand and mud, under ancient seas, lakes and rivers. Fossils also include any preserved trace of life that is typically more than 10 000 years old.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fossils are the remains of plants, animals, fungi, bacteria, and single-celled living things that have been replaced by rock material or impressions of organisms preserved in rock.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fossils (from Latin fossus, literally “having been dug up") are the preserved remains or traces of animals, plants, and other organisms from the remote past.

Detailed explanation-5: -fossil, remnant, impression, or trace of an animal or plant of a past geologic age that has been preserved in Earth’s crust.