Ch 11 Fossils vocab

any remains or trace of a formerly living organism preserved by natural processes

• fossil

• index fossil

• coal

• lignite

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

the study of life in geologic time, as represented by the fossils of animals, plants, and other organisms found in the geologic column

• paleontology

• fossil

• extinction

• coal

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

a fossil that regularly appears in certain layers of the geologic column

• index fossil

• fossil

• anthracite

• natural gas

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

an organism that scientists consider a step in the evolution from one kind of organism to another higher up on the evolutionary tree of life

• transitional form

• bituminous

• index fossil

• coal

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

the process by which a species, family, or larger group of organisms dies out

• extinction

• fossil fuels

• bituminous

• lignite

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a natural energy source that is believed to have formed from fossilized organisms

• fossil fuel

• fossil

• index fossil

• anthracite

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

an organic sedimentary rock formed from fossilized terrestrial plant matter

• coal

• natural gas

• petroleum

• lignite

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

moderately dense, hard coal; about 70% carbon and dark brown to black in color

• bituminous coal

• coal

• petroleum gas

• anthracite

dark brown, soft, crumbly coal that is about 30% carbon and includes liquid organic substances

• lignite

• bituminous coal

• anthracite

• fossil fuels

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

a liquid fossil fuel found underground as crude oil

• petroleum

• natural gas

• coal

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4