Weird and Wondrous Rocks Vocabulary

it has no end and last forever

• eternal

• organic

• intriguing

• fossilized

something that is made up of living matter

• organic

• eternal

• helictites

• fossilized

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.K.5A

very interesting

• intriguing

• fossilized

• stalagmites

• stalactites

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

are the remains or traces of plans and animals that lived long ago

• fossilized

• organic

• eternal

• stalactites

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

form when the minerals in the water fall from the cave ceiling and walls and grow up from the cave floor

• stalagmites

• stalactites

• helicitites

• fossilized

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

form when the minerals in the water fall from the cave ceilings and walls and grow downward from ceilings like icicles

• stalactites

• stalagmites

• helicitites

• fossilized

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.10

CCSS.RI.4.10

CCSS.RI.5.10

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

are stalactites that grow in branching shapes

• helicitites

• stalactites

• stalagmites

• fossilized

action or resulting state

• suffix ment

• sufffix ness

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

state or quality

• suffix ness

• suffix ment

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A