The Environment and Change Over Time

Change over time in populations of related organisms.

• biological evolution

• extinction

• geologic time scale

• fossil record

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Fossil copy of an organism in a rock.

• cast

• mold

• trace fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

When all individuals of a species have died.

• biological evolution

• fossil record

• extinction

• isotopes

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

Set of all the fossils ever discovered on Earth.

• fossil record

• geologic time scale

• isotopes

• mold

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Chart that divides Earth's history into different time units.

• geologic time scale

• fossil record

• cast

• mold

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons.

• isotopes

• trace fossil

• tissue

• cast

Impression of an organism in a rock.

• mold

• cast

• trace fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Similar cells that work together and perform a function.

• tissue

• trace fossil

• mold

• cast

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Preserved evidence of the activity of an organism.

• trace fossil

• mold

• cast

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Characteristic of a species that enables the species to survive in its environment.

• adaptation

• camouflage

• variation

• mimicry

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4