Unit 1: The History of Life on Earth-Vocabulary

Remains or traces of a once living organism

• Fossils

• Fossil Record

• Radiometric Dating

• Sedimentary Rock

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The method of finding the absolute age of a rock based on comparing the amounts of unstable, radioactive particles to stable particles in a sample.

• Common Ancestor

• Anatomy

• Embryology

• Radiometric Dating

The collection of all known fossils and their placement in order from earliest to most recent; the history of life on earth as it is preserved by fossils.

• Anatomy

• Fossil Record

• Embryology

• Evolution

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

When all members of a species die out and there are no members of the species left on earth

• Evolution

• Elevation

• Extinction

• Eviction

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The process of biological change by which populations become different from their ancestors over many generations.

• Evolution

• Adaptation

• Radiometric Dating

• Embryology

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

An ancient species from which two or more species evolved.

• Same Ancestor

• Common Ancestor

• Ancestor

• Different Ancestor

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

An organism's body structure and structural traits.

• Bones

• Fossil

• Muscles

• Anatomy

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-3

The study of the development of an unborn or unhatched organism.

• Evolution

• Embryology

• Biology

• Radioactive Dating

(a)   form when specific conditions occur that preserve an organisms remains.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Using radiometric dating can tell you a rocks absolute (a)   .

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5