Rock Patterns 2022

Major geological event that occurs when plates shift suddenly and release stored energy

• earthquake

• volcano

• tsunami

• eruption

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Information that supports an idea is called:

• lawyer

• evidence

• opinions

• judge

Rock arrangements—such as sea stacks, arches, mesas, and gorges—created by weathering and erosion and other natural processes

• deltas

• rock formations

• rock layers

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The features of an area that you can see

• landscape

• rock layers

• rock formations

• fossils

Preserved parts or traces of animals and plants that lived in the past

• landsape

• evidence

• earthquakes

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Stacked levels of rock with different compositions and fossils deposited over time; oldest layers at the bottom, youngest layers at the top

• rock layers

• rock formations

• fossils

• earthquakes

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

You found a rock layer with shells. This tells you that:

• The rock layer was part of Antarctica

• the rock layer was land long ago

• the rock layer was water long ago

• the rock layer was part of South America

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

You are an archeologist digging for fossils. You first come across a fern plant fossil. As you keep digging, you find a shark tooth fossil. Based on the evidence what do you know?

• The fern fossil is older than the tooth fossil.

• Both rock layers were covered with water long ago.

• The shark tooth fossil is younger than the fern fossil.

• The fern fossil is younger than the shark tooth fossil.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Where you find the YOUNGEST rock layer?

• at the top

• at the bottom

• in the middle

• none of these

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

You know a rock layer is the OLDEST because...

• none of these

• it is in the middle, so it has been there longer

• it is on the top, so it has been there longer

• it is on the bottom, so it has been there longer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4