4th Grade LEAP Vocab Ch. 2 test

all natural and catastrophic events which cause fossil formation

• Floods, mudslides, earthquakes, and ash deposits

• Bones and shells

• Index fossils

• Fossil Records

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

remains of plants and animals which lived in the past

• bones and shells

• dinosaurs

• sedimentation

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a law which states each rock layer is older than the one above it

• The Fossil Record

• Law of Superposition

• Sedimentation

• Index Fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

layers of soil and rock where fossils are found

• index fossils

• sediment

• dinosaurs

• bones and shells

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

fossils which lived for a short period of time

• dinosaurs

• sediments

• index fossils

• bones and shells

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

a record of all fossils found since people began studying them

• Dinosaurs

• Law of Superposition

• The Fossil Record

• Sedimentation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

the parts of organisms which fossilized the best

• index fossils

• dinosaurs

• sediment

• bones and shells

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

the process by which rock and soil layers are formed

• Index fossils

• sedimentation

• fossils

• dinosaurs

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

prehistoric creatures that lived millions of years before modern mammals

• dinosaurs

• fossils

• bones and shells

• sediments

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

When looking at the layers of the Earth's crust, which layer is the OLDEST?

• the layer on top

• the deepest layer

• all layers are the same

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4