How fossils form
Science · Space Systems & Earth's History · conceptual
Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time
What mastery looks like
- Explain that rock layers (strata) form over time, with the oldest at the bottom
- Describe how fossils in different layers provide evidence of organisms that lived at different times
- Use patterns in rock formations to explain how a landscape has changed over millions of years
Check your understanding
If How fossils form sees layers of rock in a cliff face, can they explain that the bottom layers are oldest and any fossils tell us what lived there long ago?
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