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ch. 4 vocabulary
Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| fossil | traces or remains of living things from a long time ago |
| original remains | actual body parts of a organism |
| ice core | a tubular sample that shows the layers of snow and ice that has built up over thousands of years |
| relative ago | the age of an event or object in relation to other events or objects |
| index fossils | fossils or organisms that were common that lived in many areas and that existed only during specific spans |
| absolute age | the actual age of an event or object |
| half-life | the time taken for the radioactivity of a specified isotope to fall to half its original value |
| uniformitarianism | the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes |
| geological time scale | a system of chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy to time |