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Fossils
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Uniformitarianism | A change that happens slowly. |
| Catastrophism | A change that happens all of a sudden. |
| Original Horizontality | All layers have to be horizontal. |
| Law of Superposition | It states that the oldest layer is on the bottom and the younger is on the top. |
| Relative Dating (age) | Around the age by the law of superposition |
| Absolute Dating (age) | The exact age |
| Index Fossil | A fossil that lived short. |
| Petrified fossil | When water flows throw and hardens it. |
| Trace Fossil | The actions of a fossil |
| Mold | It is concave and is a imprint of the fossil |
| Cast | It is convex and is a copy of the fossil. |