Earth's Features Vocabulary

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

• model

• inference

• argumentt

• geologist

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

• sediment

• fossil

• cement

• erosion

something you notice using your five senses

• observation

• fossil

• inference

• model

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

• sedimentary rock

• environment

• stable

• inference

something scientists make to answer questions about the real world

• argument

• model

• compact

• observations

small pieces of rock, such as silt or sand

• sediment

• sedimentary rock

• compact

• cement

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

• sediment

• erosion

• sedimentary rock

• environment

to stick together in the process of forming rock

• cement

• compact

• erosion

• stable

to press together

• compact

• cement

• fossil

• geologist

a thick sheet of rock formed from the same material

• sedimentary rock

• rock layer

• sediment

• erosion