Amplify Science Earth's Features Vocabulary

a valley with steep sides

• valley

• mountain

• canyon

• rocky outcrop

a section of exposed rock

• canyon

• rocky outcrop

• mountain

• valley

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

something scientists make to answer questions about the real world

• inference

• observations

• fossil

• model

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

something you firgure out based on observations and information you already know

• observations

• inference

• model

• explanation

a person who studies rocks and fossils to learn about the past

• geologist

• historian

• biologist

• fossils

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

something you notice using your 5 senses

• model

• inference

• explanation

• observation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

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

• dinosaur

• rocky outcrop

• bones

• fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

small pieces of rock such as silt or sand

• rock layer

• sediment

• cement

• fossils

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

to press together

• compact

• harden

• rock

• sediment

to stick together in the process of forming rock

• compact

• rock

• cement

• sediment