Earth's Features Vocab

What is a fossil?

• A type of rock formed from sediment

• A living thing, such as a plant or animal

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

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

What is a rock layer?

• A thick sheet of rock formed from the same material

• A living thing, such as a plant or animal

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

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

What is an inference?

• A thick sheet of rock formed from the same material

• Something you notice using any of the five senses

• Something you figure out based on observations and what you already know

• Small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

What does compact mean?

• A thick sheet of rock formed from the same material

• To press together

• Something you figure out based on observations and what you already know

• Small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

What is an amber?

• A thick sheet of rock formed from the same material

• A yellow or brownish-yellow fossil made from tree resin

• Something you figure out based on observations and what you already know

• Small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

What is an Environment?

• A thick sheet of rock formed from the same material

• All the living and nonliving things in an area

• Something you figure out based on observations and what you already know

• Small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

What is a model?

•  Something scientists make to answer questions about the real world

• Something you notice using any of the five senses

• Something you figure out based on observations and what you already know

• Small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

What is a cast?

•  Something scientists make to answer questions about the real world

• Something you notice using any of the five senses

• A fossil made when minerals take the place of a hard plant or animal parts

• Small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

What is a geologist?

• To press together

• To stick together in the process of forming rock

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

• A living thing, such as a plant or animal

What is a sedimentary rock?

• A living thing, such as a plant or animal

• A type of rock formed from sediment that compacts and cements over time

• A thick sheet of rock formed from the same material

• Something scientists make to answer questions about the real world