Identify factors that promote or inhibit fossilization. Promote Inhibit Answer Bank low levels of environmental oxygen sun, wind, and rain rapid burial aquatic environment scavengers absent bacteria present

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Identify factors that promote or inhibit fossilization.
Promote
Inhibit
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low levels of environmental oxygen
sun, wind, and rain
rapid burial
aquatic environment
scavengers absent
bacteria present
Transcribed Image Text:Identify factors that promote or inhibit fossilization. Promote Inhibit Answer Bank low levels of environmental oxygen sun, wind, and rain rapid burial aquatic environment scavengers absent bacteria present
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A fossil is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any living organisms from a past geological age. The part of the organisms includes bones, shells, exoskeletons structes, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood, oil, coal. The remnants of DNA and RNA are also included as fossil. The process by which fossils are developed is known as fossilization.

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