Earth's Features Chapter 1

a scientist who studies the processes and materials that form the solid part of Earth or rocks

• zoologist

• geologist

• archeologist

• rocket scientist

something you notice using any of the five senses

• inference

• hypothesis

• observation

• conclusion

something you figure out based on observation and information you already know

• inference

• hypothesis

• conclusion

• observation

a clue about life from the past that is preserved in rock

• observation

• inference

• rock layer

• fossil

something scientists make to answer questions about the real world

• hypothesis

• inference

• model

• fossil

small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

• fossil

• sand

• rock layer

• sediment

fossil forms when an organism dies and is covered with sediment that turns into rock

• true

• false

a type pf rock formed from sediment that compacts and cements over time

• metamorphic

• igneous

• soft rock

• sedimentary

to press together

• cement

• compact

• sediment

• conclude

to stick together in the process of forming rock

• cement

• compact

• sediment

• conclude