Fossilization Bingo Cards

Fossils Bingo Card

These cards are about Fossils. Fossils are the remains of an organism from a previous geologic time. They can consist of the preserved tissues of an organism or dissolved minerals to form the more common hardened fossils. The terms listed here refer to different types of fossils and f These include words like amber, compressions, freezing, mummification, and resin.

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Words List For Fossils Bingo Cards

amber asphalt carbonization casts compactions
compressions coprolites dessication distillation drying
freezing gastroliths impressions molds molecular fossils
mummification permineralization petrification polymerization preservation
resin shell skeleton trace fossils wax



How To Play Fossilization Bingo

  1. Print out your free Fossils bingo boards, or make custom ones with Bingo Card Creator. Click here to get started.
  2. Give one card to each player.
  3. Call off words randomly, for example by using a call list. You can either just say a word, like "impressions", or you can make up a more involved clue involving impressions.
  4. When a word is called, each player should find it and mark it.
  5. The first player(s) to clear five words in any direction (horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) wins a small prize.

Notes: How long a bingo game lasts depends on what pace you read the clues at and how many players you have. If you read faster, such as for older or more experienced students, or if you have more players, the game tends to end more quickly. In general, I suggest allocating between twenty and thirty minutes to a bingo game. Since they can potentially end as early as the fourth word called, though that is quite rare, I encourage you to keep playing in the event of the game being over earlier than you expected it to be. Almost 90% of bingo games with a 25 word list and 25 players will see their first bingo within 7 to 11 words being called.