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| landscape | A large area of land that includes a wide variety of surface features, such as hills, valleys, and rivers |
| landforms | A part of the Earth's surface that has a unique shape, is easy to recognize, and was created by nature |
| cataclysmic events | An event that causes a sudden and dramatic change to the earth's surface |
| William Smith | Was the first person to make a map of the layers of rock beneath the Earth's surface |
| canal | A man made waterway used to float heavy loads on boats pulled by horses that walked on a path that ran alongside the canal |
| coal | A natural resource formed from dead plant material that is millions of years old, that was burned to heat water and people's homes |
| fossil | A rock whose shape reveals information about an ancient plant, animal, or other organism. |
| ammonites | a kind of snail that lived millions of years ago which fossilized and is used to determine the age of rock |
| geologists | A scientist who studies the earth, including its history and the processes that shaped it. |
| Ethelred Bennet | A fossil collector from the mid 1700s who collected fossils all over the county of Wilshire, England |
| ichthyosaur | a kind of dinosaur that lived in the sea |
| plesiosaur | a huge marine reptile dinosaur |
| pterodactyl | a winged dinosaur |
| Mary Anning | A woman fossil collector who found the first fossil of an icthyosaur |
| geology | The branch of science that studies the Earth and the processes that shape it |
