Earth and Its Changing Features

Finding fossils in an area can help us learn what about that location?

• Which places in the region receive the most sunlight

• The effect of the climate on the formation of the soil

• How modern plants and animals interact there

• The kinds of organisms that lived there long ago

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Fossils of fish are found under land where cows now live. What does this tell you?

• the fish were dropped their by flying birds

• this land was once under the ocean

• farmers fed the fish to the cows

• fish used to live on land

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_________ is the preserved remains of an animal, plant, or organism from the past.

• Imprinting

• Mold/Cast

• Fossil

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The diagram shows rock layers next to a road. Layer F contains many plant fossils. Layer F most likely formed in which of these environments?

• Ocean

• Tundra

• Desert

• Forest

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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On the bottom of the ocean, there is a mountain range that divides the ocean floor into two parts.  This area is also known as underwater volcanic mountains.

• continental shelf

• continental slope

• abyssal plain

• mid-ocean ridge

Which landform best describes low land between hills or a mountain?

• Canyon

• Valley

• Plateau 

• Field

What are landforms?

• Landforms are how the land changes.

• Landforms shape the surface of the Earth.

• Landforms are cool

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What is a topographic map?

• shows elevation of an are using lines

• an opening in the earth's surface where gas and rock are forced out

• a sudden movement of the earth's crust

• a large landmass

What landform is this?

• canyon

• valley

• dune

• estuary

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

The map that is using contour lines to show stepper land from flat land is.......

• Political map

• Local attraction map

• Physical map

• Topographic map