Science language you should know and use

Climate - weather of an area. A desert is a dry climate.

Dinosaur - a group of large, extinct reptiles

Environment - all of the conditions and surroundings. The fern grew in a warm, wet environment.

Extinct - no longer living. Dinosaurs are extinct.

Extinction - the process of dying out

Fossil - the hardened remains of a plant or animal from long ago.

Impression - an imprint. Their foot made an impression in the wet soil.

Infer - to make a conclusion from what is known. we can infer that dinosaurs existed because of fossils.

Mineral - rock or ore.

Organism - any living thing.

Paleontologist-a person who studies fossil remains.

Prehistoric - before recorded history. A stegosaurus was a prehistoric animal.

Preserved - kept from rotting. The fossil was well preserved inside the rock.

Replacement - to take the place of. Minerals made a replacement of the bird's feathers in the fossil.

Sedimentary - rock formed from material that settles.

Trilobite - a fossil sea animal.