What was the essential questions that we were exploring in Chapter 1

• How Earth can change over a long period of time

• How sediment is formed.

• We will not survive without rivers

• How ocean animals affect the ecosystem in our planet.

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Desert Rocks National Park is not a real place, but it is similar to many other parks in the wester United States.​ (a)  

• True
• False

What is a canyon?

• A valley that starts in Mexico and ends in Canada

• A valley hidden in the pyramids of Egypt

• A valley with steep sides made of rock

• Something that helped you in you investigatios

A rocky outcrop is a section of exposed rock or sections of rock we can see.​ (a)  

• True
• False

what is a geologist ?

• A person who studies the studies space including the moon

• Is a scientist who studies the processes and materials that form the solid part of earth

• An expert reader that teaches children to read.

• Sr. Olmos's favorite food.

What is an inference?

• An educated guess based on information you already know.

• A prediction about the future based on observations you already know.

• A and B Only

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

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Geologist observe clues like fossils and rocks, and use ideas about science they already know to make ___________ about what might have happened in a place in the past. Choose the answer that best fills in the blank space above.

• Inferences

• Cognantes

• Simulations

• None of these.

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Which word best describes the following definition: a clue about life from the past that is preserved in rock.

• Sediment

• Fossils

• Rocks

• Sand

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Which of the following is not a sediment type

• Silt

• Gravel

• Sand

• Water

What needs to happen first for organisms to turn into a fossils?

• They first need to be cover with sediment

• They first need to be covered with water

• They first need to be cover cement

• A and C only