In three to five sentences, explain how the fossil record provides evidence for the idea of natural selection.(4 points) make it sound like a 7th grader

Answer 1

The fossil record is like a big library of old stuff, but instead of books, it has the remains of plants and animals that lived long ago. Scientists have found lots of different fossils from different time periods, and they can see how these animals and plants changed over time. They see that some species have similar features in older fossils, but as time goes on, they start to look different. This shows that they evolved and changed through a process called natural selection where only the ones with helpful traits survive and pass on their genes.