Unit 4 Vocabulary (Sci 8)

quick violent event

• catastrophism

• uniformitarianism

• fossils

• mold

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

the preserved remains or evidence of ancient organisms

• fossils

• mold

• cast

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

the impression in a rock left by an ancient organism

• mold

• cast

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

the oldest layers are on the bottom and the youngest layers

• superposition

• relative age

• cross-cutting

• correlation

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

age of rocks

• relative dating

• absolute dating

• cross-cutting

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

rocks are deposited in flat layers

• original horizontality

• superposition

• catastrophism

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

when a mold gets filled in it makes a copy

• cast

• fossil

• cross-cutting

• correlation

rock that cuts across rock layers

• cross-cutting

• correlation

• index fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

missing rock layers in the rock record

• unconformities

• correlation

• fossils

• relative age

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

matching up rocks and fossils in separate locations

• correlation

• fossils

• original horizontality

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3