GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -All scientists agree that items made by humans, such as buildings, paintings, books, pottery and coins, are not fossils. These artefacts are studied by archaeologists, not paleontologists.

Detailed explanation-2: -Examples of fossil include shells, bones, stone imprints of animals or microbes, exoskeletons, objects preserved in amber, petrified wood, coal, hair, oil, and DNA remnants.

Detailed explanation-3: -The different types of fossils include: petrified fossils, mold and cast fossils, carbon film fossils, trace fossils, preserved remains, compression fossils, impression fossils, and pseudo fossils.

Detailed explanation-4: -1. Name five kinds of trace fossils. Burrows, coprolites, tracks, trails, nests and footprints are examples of trace fossils.