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Academic vocab
academic vocab
Question | Answer |
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Fossil | the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago most commonly preserved in sedimentary |
trace fossil | a fossilized structure such as a footprint or a coprolite that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or within soft sediment |
climate | the weather conditions in area over a long period of time |
ice core | a long cylinder of ice obtained from drilling through ice caps or ice sheets used to study past climates |
relative dating | any method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than other other events or objects |
superposition | a principle that states that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layer have not been disturbed |
unconformity | a break in the geologic record created when rock layers are eroded or when sediment is not deposited for a long period of time |
geologic column | an ordered arrangement of rock layer that is based on the relative ages of the rocks and in which the oldest rock are at the bottom |
uniformitarianism | a principle that geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by current geologic process |