Earth Features Vocab

Select the correct vocabulary:

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

• Marine Biologist

• Geologist

• Paleontologist

• Rock Expert

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Something you notice using any of the five senses.

• Sight

• Inference

• Smell

• Observation

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

Something you discover based on observations
and information you already know

• Thinking

• Inference

• Observation

• Speaking

A clue about past life that is preserved in the rock

• Fossil

• Rock

• Dinosaur

• Sediment

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

 Something scientists do to answer questions
about the real world

• Stones

• Answers

• Model

• Books

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Small pieces of rock, like silt or sand

• Sediment

• The beach

• Crumbs

• Cement

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A fossil is formed when a _____ dies and is covered with sediment that turns into rock.

• Organism

• Plant

• Animal

• Dinosaur

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

To press together

• squeeze

• press

• compact

• press

Join in the rock formation process

• compress

• cement

• plaster

• compact

A thick sheet of rock made of the same material

• sediment

• crust

• cement

• rock layer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4