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Which type of fossils form from hardening sediment?

casts
tarpit fossils
carbon films
amber fossils


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The correct answer is casts, molds, and trace fossils.
The types of fossils form from hardening sediment are casts, molds, and trace fossils.
A fossil is the rest or record of an organism where you can see the texture, the size, and shape of it., such as skin, body bones, and teeth. There are three types of fossils. Its formation is different. These are mold fossils, cast fossils, trace fossils.
A mold fossil has a fossilized imprint in the substrate or rock where a fossil is marked. Cast fossils contain minerals in the rock. Trace fossils or ichnofossils, don’t have information from the organism, but fragments or traces left by it.

Answer:

Casts.

Explanation:

Tarpit fossils form from something falling into a pit of tar and not decomposing.

Amber fossils form from something, usually insects getting stuck inside sap and it hardening.

casts form when something dies, gets pressed down into the dirt, then rots away leaving an mold. Then minerals or Harden sediment fill in the mold creating a cast.

carbon films form when something dies, gets buried under dirt, and rots away leaving an outline of it.