Sydney Earth’s Features Chapter 1

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

• observation

• geologist

• fossil

• cement

something you notice using any of the five senses

• inference

• observation

• compact

• sediment

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

• geologist

• observation

• inference

• compact

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

• rock layer

• sediment

• fossil

• cement

small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

• compact

• cement

• rock layer

• sediment

A geologist is a scientist who studies the materials and processes that form the solid part of Earth.

• True

• False

___________ can provide clues about the way Earth changes over time.

• rocks

• plants

• fossils

• space

An _________ is something you notice using any of the five senses.

• inference

• observation

• geologist

• cement

An _________ is something you figure out based on observations and information you already know.

• observation

• inference

• geologist

• sediment

Geologists use observations of people to make inferences about organisms that lived long ago.

• True

• False