evidence of past life on Earth

A place in California located 100 miles away from the Pacific Ocean on dry land and we find fossils of marine life like whales, sharks, dolphins and turtles below the surface.

The branch of science that studies fossils of animals and plants.

Fine sand, clay, or other material carried by moving water and deposited at the bottom of a body of water like the ocean.

made when sand and mud gets laid down in layers. Over time, these layers are squashed under more and more layers.

A layer in the earth containing large quantities of fossilized animal remains.

A method for determining the age of an object that is thousands of years old such as a fossil. It uses the element carbon to do this.

all the visible features of the earth’s surface.

Located in Arizona, this landscape was carved by the Colorado River over millions of years and is one of the best examples of weathering and erosion.

After pieces of the earth are broken down through weathering, those pieces are moved through

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