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Carbonized Fossil |
Forms when organisms or parts are pressed between layers of soft mud or clay that hardness squeezing almost all the decaying organism away leaving the carbon imprint in the rock |
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Cast Fossil |
Forms when mold is filled with sand or mud that hardens into the shape of the organism |
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Fossil |
The preserved remains of things that lived in the past |
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Fossil Record |
Gives important information about past life and environment on earth |
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Mold Fossil |
Forms when sediments bury an organism change into rock, and decays leaving a cavity |
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Petrified Fossil |
Forms when minerals soak into buried remains |
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Preserved Fossil |
Forms when entire organism are prevented from decaying and being in rocks |
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Trace Fossil |
Forms when mud or sand hardens into the stone where a footprint trail was left behind |
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axis |
Imaginary line that cuts through the center of the planet |
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Day |
Based on 24 hrs |
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Eclipse |
Result of the sun moon and earth being lined up |
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Equinox |
Occurs when the tilt of earth causes day and night |
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Lunar Eclipse |
Occurs when the earth is between the sun and moom |
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Revolution |
Orbit around a central body |
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Season |
Winter, spring, summer, and fall |
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Solar eclipses |
Moon is directly between soon and earth |
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Solstice |
A long day in summer and winter |
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Sphere |
Surface is the same distance from 2 points |
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Tilt |
23 1/2 |
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Year |
365 days |
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New moon |
When the moon is between the sun and earth, it's when we can't see it. |
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Waxing Cresent |
Slowly begin to see some but not half of the moon its first a thin cresent |
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First Quater |
when the moon is next to the earth, you can see half of the moon |
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Waxing Gibbous |
this position it is like a humped circle it slowly begins to like a full circle |
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Full Moon |
When the moon is on the other side on the earth away from the sun |
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Waning Gibbous |
Looks like a humped half circle. The moon is waning/going away |
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Third Quater |
When the moon is position next to the earth |
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Waning Cresent |
The moon begins to go away with a new moon to come |
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