Earth's Features Chapter 1 Vocabulary

a scientist who studies the processes and materials that form the solid part of Earth

• zoologist

• geologist

• archaelogist

• rocket scientist

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something you notice using any of the five senses

• inference

• hypothesis

• observation

• conclusion

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something you figure out based on observations

and information you already know

• inference

• observation

• hypothesis

• conclusion

a clue about life from the past that is preserved in rock

• observation

• inference

• rock layer

• fossil

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something scientists make to answer questions

about the real world

• hypothesis

• inference

• model

• fossil

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small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

• fossil

• sand

• rock layer

• sediment

A fossil forms when an organism dies and is covered with sediment that turns into rock.

• True

• False

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a type of rock formed from sediment that compacts

and cements over time

• metamorphic rock

• igneous rock

• soft rock

• sedimentary rock

to press together

• cement

• compact

• sediment

• conclude

to stick together in the process of forming rock

• cement

• compact

• sediment

• conclude