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Fossils
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Fossil | Traces or remains of living things from long ago. |
| Original Remains | Fossils that are the actual bodies or body parts of organisms. |
| Ice Core | A tubular sample that shows the layers of snow and ice that have built up for thousands of years. |
| Relative Age | The age of an event or object in relation to other eventsor objects |
| Index Fossil | Fossils of organisms that were common, that lived in many ares, and that existed only during specific spans of time. |
| Absolute Age | The acual age of an event or object. |
| Half-Life | The legnth of time it taked for half of the atomes in a sample of a radioactive element to change from an unstable form into another form. |
| Uniformitarianism | The same process that change Earthin the past continue to occur today |
| Geological Time Scale | the devision of earths history into intervals of time devined by major events or changes on earth |