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paleontolgy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| catastrophism | priciple that states that geologic change occurs suddenly |
| law of superposition | geologic principle that states that in horizontal layers of sedementary rock,each layer is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it |
| uniformitarinism | princple that states that geologic process that occuredin the past can be explianed by current geologic processes. the present is the key to the past |
| era | a unit of geologic time that includes two or more periods . |