Earth's History

Any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age

• Evidence

• Fossil evidence

• Fossil record

• Remains

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

All the layers of rock deposits laid down, including all their fossil content and the information they contain about the history of Earth

• Rock layers

• Fossil evidence

• Geological Record

• Fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

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

• Geological record

• Sedimentary rock

• Fossil remains

• Fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Beds or layers of sedimentary rock having approximately the same composition throughout

• Rock Layers

• Rock Strata

• Sedimentary Rock

• Rock Layers

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Geological Time Scale

• System of chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy (study of rock layers) to time

• All the layers of rock deposits laid down, including all their fossil content and the information they contain about the history of Earth

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Index fossil is.....

• A fossil that is found in the rock layers of the rock cycle

• A fossil that is found in the rock layers of different geologic ages.

• A fossil that is found in the rock layers of only one geologic age.

The KT boundary is a

• apart of the rock cycle

• a rock layer that appears across Earth.

• a boundary that depicts different kinds of rocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

are scientists that study fossils and rock layers.

• Meteorologists

• Paleontologists

• Geologists

• Scientist

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Geologists are

• scientists that study the weather and climate.

• scientists that study the composition of Earth, including land

  formations and rock layers

• scientists that study fossils and rock layers.

• scientists who investigate rock layers all over Earth to help put together Earth’s history and the history of the organisms that lived here in the past.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Scientist have found

an abundance of fossils of living things,

including dinosaurs, _______ the KT layer,

but very few fossils appear in the layer

_______ of the KT layer.

• on top of, below

• below, below

• below, on top of

• on top of, on top of

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1