Fossil Record Vocabulary

What is chronological order?

• When organisms are descended from a single ancestor
• The quality or state of having many different forms
• The arrangement of things in the order which they occurred
• Layers of rock that are successfully deposited on top of each other and are distinguishable

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What is diversity?

• When organisms are descended from a single ancestor
• The quality or state of having many different forms
• The arrangement of things in the order which they occurred
• Layers of rock that are successfully deposited on top of each other and are distinguishable

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is extinction?

• When a species no longer exists
• The quality or state of having many different forms
• The arrangement of things in the order which they occurred
• Layers of rock that are successfully deposited on top of each other and are distinguishable

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Layers of rock that are successively deposited on top of one another and are distinguishable from one another based on their mineral contents

• Extinction

• Petrification

• Glacial Period

• Sedimentary Layers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The formation of fossils as stone replaces decaying tissues

• Extinction

• Petrification

• Glacial Period

• Sedimentary Layers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Scientific law that states fossils located in deeper sediment layers are older than ones deposited in layers closer to the surface

• Fossil Record

• Law of Superposition

• Fossil Fuels

• Divergence

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The mineralized remains of organisms, showing how long-dead organisms lived and how their bodies were structured

• Diversity

• Endangered

• Fossils

• Crude Oil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The mineralized remains of organisms and the rock layers in which they are found that shows when and where long-dead organisms lived and how their bodies were structured

• Fossil Record

• Law of Superposition

• Fossil Fuels

• Fossils

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2