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Fossils
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sedimentary rock | rock made of loose pieces of other rocks crushed together. |
| Original remains | actuall body parts of organisims |
| casts and molds | fossils made in sedimentary rocks |
| petrified wood | Stone fossil of a tree |
| fossil | Remains of living things from long ago |
| ice core | a tublar sample that shows layers of snow and ice |
| relative age | the age of an object or event in relatijon to other objects |
| carbon films | a film that is left on a rock and shows soft parts of an animal |
| trace fossils | not animal parts, rather evidence that an animal was there (foot print) |
| Tree rings | something that shows the age of trees |
| index fossils | fossils that existed for specific spans of time |
| absolute age | the exact age of a object or event |
| half life | the measurement of radioactive elements age |
| geologic time scale | divides earths history into intervals of time |