Environment
Where water meets land, an environment with the common sediment of sand.
Beach
Made of pebbles, larger rocks and sometimes sand.
Conglomerate
What is something a scientific argument has to include?
A Claim
The use of evidence to say why one idea is the best
Argument
Name a stable environment in the United States?
Mountains
An environment that is watery but not too deep, commonly found sediment is clay, calcium carbonate, and sand.
Shallow Ocean
Contains the sediment calcium carbonate.
Limestone (Fossiliferous)
What is something a scientific argument has to include?
Evidence from data and ideas
A proposed answer to a question
claim
Name an environment undergoing change pretty actively in our current time?
Arctic/Antarctic/Polar Caps
A deep watery environment that is home to large animals and plants, sediment commonly found here is clay.
Deep Ocean
Made of clay formed in watery environments.
Mudstone
True or False: You have to connect evidence together to support the claim.
True
Observations or measurements recorded in an investigation
Data
What is the name of the ancient pine tree fossil we found in the siltstone layer?
Lepidodendron
An are of low, flat land that can flood often but is full of plants, common sediment is clay and silt.
Floodplains
Made of mostly sand formed in watery environments.
Sandstone
True or False: You don't use scientific language in an argument.
False
Information that supports an answer to a question
evidence
What is the name of the shell fossil we've found in the mudstone layer with the fossil skull?
Mortoniceras
An area of land that forms when a river enters slower-moving water, sediment commonly found here is silt.
River Delta.
Made of silt and found in slow moving watery environments.
Siltstone
What are we trying to figure out with our current scientific argument paper?
What the environment of Desert Rocks National Park used to be like
Staying mostly the same
stable
What is Ms Froehlich's favorite dinosaur we've found as imaginary geologists?
Mosasaurus