How it works
Fossil Record written in bubble letters, Fossil over Record on one sideways sheet, nearly twice as tall as the two words on one line. It opens in Fredoka, which keeps four of its five rings white.
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Labels for a fossil table
After your first print, open Fossil words in bubble letters. Body / Fossil labels the remains themselves: Bones, Teeth, Shells, Petrified / Wood, anything sealed in Amber. Trace / Fossil labels what a living thing left behind: Footprints, or the fossil dung called Coprolite. Mold and / Cast, Trilobite, Ammonite, Stromatolite and Dinosaur / Bones name single finds, under Fossils.
A timeline and a wall of rock
A timeline of life runs Precambrian, Paleozoic / Era, Mesozoic / Era, Cenozoic / Era, oldest first. Rock / Layers and Sedimentary / Rock head a drawing of strata, the oldest layer at the bottom. Paleontology, Paleontologist, Dig Site and Fossil / Hunt label a classroom dig.
- Paleontologist prints smallest of the row in all three fonts; Bones, Teeth and Shells print more than twice as tall.
- The three Era labels print at nearly one letter size; Precambrian, a single line, comes out about a quarter smaller.
- Trilobites are common Paleozoic fossils; ammonites and dinosaurs go on the Mesozoic part of the timeline.
Questions and answers
How do you write Fossil Record in bubble letters?
Pencil Fossil on one line and Record under it. Round every stroke into a fat outline, keep a ring in both o's, the R, the e and the d, set a round dot over the i, then rub out the pencil.
What is the fossil record?
All fossils taken together. A fossil is the preserved remains or trace of a once-living thing from a past geological age, and the word comes from the Latin fossilis, dug up.
Is it paleontology or palaeontology?
Both. Paleontology is the American spelling and palaeontology the one used across the Commonwealth, so a poster in the United States takes the shorter word.