Amplify - Earth's Features Chapter 3 - Vocabulary

New rock layers form on ______ of existing rock layers.

• top

• bottom

• side

• underneath

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Lower rock layers are _____ than the layers above them.

• younger

• older

• the same age

• newer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The environments that lower rock layers formed in came _______.

• later

• a long time ago

• soon

• earlier

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Geologists observe the order of rock layers to ______ the order of past environments.

• make sense

• observe

• infer

• understand

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

the use of evidence to say why one idea is the best

• claim

• argument

• observe

• evidence

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NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

a proposed answer to a question

• claim

• environment

• infer

• measure

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

information that supports an answer to a question

• organism

• rock layer

• environment

• evidence

a clue about life from the past that is preserved in rock

• organism

• fossil

• geologist

• rock layer

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a scientist who studies the processes and materials that form the solid part of Earth

• entomologist

• organism

• geologist

• fossil

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

to figure something out based on observations and what you already know

• infer

• observe

• evidence

• claim