Question

Which statement best describes why most individual organisms never fossilized?(1 point)
Responses

Only organisms with hard parts fossilize.
Only organisms with hard parts fossilize.

Conditions for fossilization are rare.
Conditions for fossilization are rare.

Only organisms that lived in the ocean fossilize.
Only organisms that lived in the ocean fossilize.

Chemicals that fossilize organisms are rare.
Chemicals that fossilize organisms are rare.

Answer 1

Conditions for fossilization are rare.

Explanation: Fossilization requires a specific set of circumstances (rapid burial, low oxygen, mineralization, etc.), so most organisms decompose before those conditions occur.