How do fossils provide evidence for evolution?

Science

An animals skeleton is buried by sediment

The fossil is exposed at the Earth's surface

The skeleton dissolves and a mould is formed

Which of these is the last step in the fossilisation process?

a characteristic that helps an organisms to survive in its environment

A collection of fossils found across different ages of rock

the process by which living things gradually change over time

If fossils are deeper down in rock are the newer or older fossils?

In the rock cycle some rocks that contain fossils are destroyed.

Some organisms decompose before they are covered by sediment.

Which of these is NOT a reason that parts of the fossil record are missing.

For all of the questions below choose a word to complete the sentence.

Not all individuals of a species are exactly the ________. There are variations between them.

The individuals of a species who are best ___________ to their environment are most likely to survive.

These individuals are more likely reproduce and pass their useful adaptations onto their _____________.

Individuals that were poorly adapted are less likely to __________.

Over time, the characteristic that make survival more likely become more common and a species gradually __________.

Given enough time, these small changes can add up to the extent that a new _________ can evolve altogether.