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Fossilsandsoilvocab
Fossils and Soil Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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A large mass of slow moving ice that flows down a slope | glacier |
When snow, ice, rain, and wind break apart or wear away rock into smaller pieces | weathering |
The dropping of sediment by wind, water, ice, or gravity | deposition |
A large mass of dropped sediment at the mouth of a river | delta |
The decayed remains of plants and animals | humus |
The type of soil that has very small particles (pieces) and is tightly packed together | clay |
The type of soil that water moves very easily through | sandy |
The type of soil that we have in Georgia | red clay |
The top layer of soil with the most humus | top soil |
The layer of soil that is solid rock | bedrock |
The preserved remains of a plant or animal that lived long ago | fossil |
A scientist who studies fossils and organisms that lived long ago | paleontologist |
Plants that have turned into rock | petrified |
Tree sap that has gotten very hard | amber |
The thing that amber protects | insects |