Science Quiz-vocabulary fossils

What term is used for having to do with the sea; living in or caused by the sea?

• surface

• marine

• fossils

• examine

What term describes having to do with a typical or special quality of a person, group, action, or thing?

• characteristics

• pressure

• sediments

• infer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is a steady force upon a surface called?

• examine

• pressure

• casts

• preserved

What term means to test by asking questions or inspect closely?

• infer

• examine

• marine

• fossils

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

What is the term for the form in which a thing is constructed?

• casts

• surface

• impression

• reasoning

What are the small pieces of land that break down called?

• fossils

• sediments

• molds

• preserved

What is used to determine what the organism was, when it lived, and what major events it experienced during its lifetime?

• fossil evidence

• early environments

• pressure

• infer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

What term describes a process that takes longer to take in information?

• slow processes

• examine

• marine

• casts

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-8

What term means to keep or save from injury, loss, or ruin; protect?

• preserved

• infer

• molds

• surface

What does it mean to make a guess based on facts and observations; conclude?

• infer

• examine

• fossils

• pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5