A wide variety of names are commonly used for petrified wood. Fossilized wood is a general term for wood that has been petrified or preserved by other methods of fossilization. Opalized wood is petrified wood that has been replaced by opal, an amorphous form of silica.
DHS redirects here. For other uses, see DHS (disambiguation). The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.
The three branches are the legislative branch, the executive branch and the judicial branch. The United States Congress heads our legislative branch. This branch serves mainly to make laws. The United States president heads our executive branch.