Lesson 4 and 5 Environments, Survival and Fossil Evidence

The fossilized resin or sap of trees

• cast

• data

• amber

• fossil

A copy of a mold's shape made of hardened minerals

• cast

• extinct

• mold

• era

a word used to describe information that has been collected and can analyzed

• fossil record

• preserve

• trace

• data

a time of several hundred million years

• evidence

• geologic time scale

• era

• fossil record

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

information that proves something is true

• preserve

• evidence

• trace

• geology

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

evidence of plants and animals preserved in rock or sediment

• fossil

• geology

• Index fossils

• mold

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

a collection of fossils that document the history of life on Earth

• amber

• cast

• Fossil Record

• tar pit

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a means of measuring the Earth's age based on the fossil record

• geology

• mold

• decade

• Geologic Time Scale

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The study of the structure and history of the Earth

• fossil record

• Geology

• preserve

• extinct

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

fossils of organisms that lived for a short time

• century

• mold

• Index fossils

• preserve

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1