Topic 7 Vocabulary

remains or evidence of plants and animals that lived long ago preserved in minterals

• data

• fossil

• argue

• extinct

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

the death of all organisms of a particular kind

• evidence

• index fossil

• argue

• extinct

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

information that can be used to confirm an idea

• evidence

• extinct

• argue

• fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

total number of fossils found

• index fossil

• evidence

• fossil record

• data

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

facts that can be used to draw conclusions

• fossil record

• argue

• data

• index fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

to make claims supported by evidence

• argue

• fossil

• index fossil

• fossil record

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

fossils of organisms that lived for a short, known time

• data

• extinct

• evidence

• index fossil

a footprint, burrow, or other mark left by a living thing

• trace fossil

• cast fossil

• mold fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Minerals pour into a cavity where an organism once was. Those minerals harden and take the shape of the once living thing.

• Mold Fossil

• Cast Fossil

• Trace Fossil

An empty hollowed out space in a rock that once contained an organism such as a plant or animal.

• Trace Fossil

• Cast Fossil

• Mold Fossil