Fossil Vocabulary

Something you notice using any of your 5 senses.

• outcrop

• sediment

• observation

Tags

NGSS.2-PS1-1

Figure something based on information given and what you already know.

• inference

• sedimentary rock

• observation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Remains, impression or traceof any once living thing from the past.

• outcrop

• fossil

• geologist

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Fossils are usually found in this rock.

• sedimentary rock

• sediment

• outcrop

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

sand,mud, and tiny bits of rock

• fossil

• sedimentary rock

• sediment

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A rock formation that is visible

• sediment

• outcrop

• observation

This oerson studies the earth and its fossils.

• fossil

• observation

• geologist

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2