Vocab
Fossils
Key Concepts
Scientific Argument
100

A sudden shaking of the Earth's surface.

What is an earthquake?

100

The type of land where the Mesosaurus fossils are found.

What is hard, solid rock?

100

Daily Double! Earth's outer layer (crust) is made of _______, ______ ______.

What is hard, solid rock?

100

To go against a claim.

What is refute?

200

Daily Double! The place where two plates meet.

What is a plate boundary?

200

The two continents in which Mesosaurus fossils are found.

What are Africa and South America?

200

Earth's outer layer (crust) is divided into sections called ______.

What are plates?

200

A proposed answer to a question about the natural world.

What is a claim?

300

Very large sections of hard, solid rock that makes up the Earth's outer layer (crust).

What is a plate?

300

Fossils are the traces or remains of ______ ______.

What are living things?

300
Geologists look for _______ in landforms and geologic events to better understand the Earth.

What are patterns?

300

Daily Double! Information about the natural world that is used to support or refute a claim.

What is evidence?
400

Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation and water.

What is the Earth's Crust (or outer layer)?

400

Fossils are found almost exclusively in this type of rock.

What is sedimentary rock?

400

The plates of Earth's outer layer (crust) _____.

What is move?

400

The process of making clear how your evidence either supports or refutes a claim.

What is reasoning?

500

A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.

What is a cross section?

500

Daily Double! The distance in kilometer between the locations where the Mesosaurus fossils are found.

What is 4,000 kilometers?

500

Not a KC: Plate motion causes ________.

What are earthquakes?

500

An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see.

What is a model?

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