Amplify - Earth's Features - Chapter 2 Vocabulary

all the living and nonliving things in an area

• inference

• environment

• observation

• fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Geologists use _______ of and ideas about rocks and fossils to make inferences about past environments.

• fossils

• environments

• inferences

• observations

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Different _______ build up in different environments. Therefore, different kinds of sedimentary rock form in different environments.

• fossils

• sediments

• environments

• rocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

What type of rock is most likely to form in an environment like this with slow moving water?

• Siltstone

• Metamorphic

• Obsidian

• Conglomerate

Different sedimentary rock layers in a place mean that the environment in that place has ________.

• stayed the same

• changed

• shifted

• become new

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

staying mostly the same

• stable

• environment

• observation

• chaos

Which of the following are examples of sandstone? (Choose 2)

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Rock layers form when sediment gets (a)_______ by the sediment above it and (b)______ together to form a layer of rock

• (a) crushed

  (b) sticks

• (a) layered

  (b) connects

• (a) covered

  (b) joins

• (a) compacted

  (b) cements

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Ocean, floodplain, rainforest and beach are all examples of...?

• Formations

• Environments

• Layers

• Sediment

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

In which of these environments is gravel most likely to build up?

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4