RMS 6th Grade Science
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| atmosphere | the gaseous portion of the planet
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| radiometric dating | a complex procedure for calculation the absolute ages of rocks
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| eon | the largest time unit on the geologic time scale
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| era | a major division on the geologic time scale that is a subdivision of an eon
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| igneous rock | a rock formed by the solidification of molten magma (melting and cooling)
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| glaciation | covered with or affected by a glacier
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| Precambrian | all geologic time prior to the Phanerozoic Eon
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| Pangaea | proposed supercontinent which began to break apart 200 million years ago and formed the present land masses
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| period | a basic unit of the geologic time scale that is a subdivision of an era
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| Phanerozoic | the part of geologic time represented by rocks containing abundant fossil evidence
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| fossils | the remains or traces of organisms preserved from the geologic past
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| plate tectonics | the theory which proposes that Earth's outer shell consists of large, individiual pieces that interact in various ways
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| paleontologist | a scientist who studies fossils and the history of life on Earth
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| relative dating | a form of dating by placing rocks in their proper sequence
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| geologic time scale | the division of Earth's history into blocks of time
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