Vocab 2-b (February)

When an organism's soft body parts are preserved in tar pits, amber, or ice.

• cast fossil

• true form fossil

• trace fossil

• mold fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

animals with backbones (more than one answer)

• invertebrates

• dogs

• slugs

• vertebrates

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

the variety of life that exists in a particular habitat or ecosystem

• animals with backbones

• animals without backbones

• non-biological factors

• biodiversity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

a change from one state or condition to another - or one period of time to another

• options

• transitions

• amendments

• transmutations

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

hardened tree sap

• cast fossil

• mold fossil

• amber

• trace fossil

3- dimensional rendering of the organism that turns to rock over many years

• cast fossil

• mold fossil

• trace fossil

• true form fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

a fossil of a footprint, trail, burrow, or other trace of an animal rather than of the animal itself.

• cast fossil

• mold fossil

• trace fossil

• true form fossil

Examples like: Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic

• transitions

• geologic time

• fossil record

• eras

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

vertebrate with four limbs (more than one answer)

• alligator

• human

• bipod

• tetrapod

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

any remains, trace, or imprint of animal or plant life preserved in Earth's crust (more than answer)

• cattails

• fossil

• owl pellet bones

• fossilized nest

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1