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Ch 10
Question | Answer |
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Fossil | are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things. |
Catastrophism | is the idea that conditions and organisms on Earth change in quick, violent events. |
Uniformitarianism | states that geologic processes that occur today are similar to chose that have occurred in the prest. Accarding to this view, |
Carbón film | is the fossilized carbon outline of an organism or part of an organism, |
Mold | is the impression in a rock left by at ancient organism. |
Cast | a fossil copy of an organism made when a mold of the organism is filled with sediment or mineral deposits. |
Trace fossil | is the preserved evidence of the activity of an organism. |
Paleontologist | Paleoncologists use the principle of unforme taramasm to Team about Tanicent. orzanisins and the emirunments where ancient organ ved. |
Superposition | is the principle that in undisturbed rocks, the oldest rocks are on the bottom |
inclusion | a piece of an older rock is called a |
Unconformity | is a surface where rock has eroded away, producing a break, or gap, in the rock record. |
correlation | geologists fill in gaps in the rock record by matching rock layers or fossils from separate locations is called |
index fossils | represent species that existed on earth for a short length of time, were abundant, and inhabied many locations |
absolute age | to mean the numerical age in years, of a rock or object. |
isotopes | are atoms of the same elemens that have different numbers of neutrons. |
radioactive decay | is the process by which an unstable element naturally changes into another element that is stable. |
inclusion | is the time required for half of the parent isotopes to decay into daughter isotopes. |
half-life | rganism made when a mold of the organism is filled with sediment or mineral deposits. |