NCES.4.E.2 - Understand the use of fossils and changes in the surface of the earth as evidence of the history of Earth and its changing life forms.
- NCES.4.E.2.1 - Compare fossils (including molds, casts, and preserved parts of plants and animals) to one another and to living organisms.
- NCES.4.E.2.2 - Infer ideas about Earth's early environments from fossils of plants and animals that lived long ago.
- NCES.4.E.2.3 - Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid processes such as landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes.