Earth's Landscapes

1. is evidence of past life on Earth.

• rock layer

• silt

• fossil

• erosion

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

1. the branch of science that studies fossils of animals and plants.

• meterology

• astronomy

• paleontology

• chemistry

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

fine sand, clay, or other material carried by moving water and deposited at the bottom of a body of water like the ocean.

• rocks

• silt

• bone bed

• rock layer

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

1. are made when sand and mud gets laid down in layers. Over time, these layers are squashed under more and more layers. Eventually, the layers turn into rock.

• sedimentary rock

• bone bed

• rock layer

• Earth's landscapes

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

 a layer in the earth containing large quantities of fossilized animal remains.

• rock layer

• Earth's crust

• bone bed

• silt

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

often formed one on top of the other.

• silt

• sedimentary rock

• Grand Canyon

• rock layer

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

a method for determining the age of an object that is thousands of years old such as a fossil.

• silt

• radiocarbon dating

• rock layer

• fossil

describes all the visible features of the earth’s surface.

• rock layer

• bone bed

• Earth's Landscapes

• erosion

a five-thousand-foot-deep canyon located in Arizona, a state in the USA.

• Mount Everest

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• Grand Canyon

• Erosion

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

1.  after pieces of the earth are broken down through weathering, the process of moving things from one place to another takes place. 

• silt

• fossil

• erosion

• rock layer