Amplify Vocabulary Unit 5 Lesson 1

What is a terrible, sudden event?

• catastrophe

• erupt

• evidence

What word means a process in which continents slowly move over time on the surface of the earth?

• continental drift

• hypothesis

• dense

• conclude

What is to send out rock, lava, and ash in a sudden explosion?

• erupt

• observation

• evidence

What is the preserved remains of something that lived long ago?

• fossil

• evidence

• observation

• erupt

What is the act of paying careful attention in order to gather information?

What is a statement based on paying careful attention to something?

• observation

• evidence

• fossil

• geologist

What word is a scientist who studies the makeup of the earth and the forces and processes that shape and change it?

• geologist

• climate

• conclude

• dense

Which word means the average weather conditions of a particular area?

• climate

• conclude

• dense

• hypothesis

Which word means thick or heavy?

• dense

• conclude

• climate

• geologist

What word means an idea that has been suggested and may be true but has not yet been proven?

• hypothesis

• dense

• conclude

• climate

What word means proof; information and facts that are helpful in forming a conclusion or supporting an idea?

• evidence

• conclude

• evidence

• geologist