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fossils
vocabulary words on fossils
Question | Answer |
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Fossils | are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things. |
Catastrophism: | is the idea that conditions and organism on earth that change in quick, violent events. |
Uniformitarianism: | states the geologic process that occurs today or similar to those who have occured in the past. |
Carbon Film: | : is a fossilized carbon outline of an organism or part of one. |
Cast: | is a fossil copy of an organism made when it is filled with sediment or mineral deposits. |
Trace fossils: | :is a fossil copy of an organism made when animals leave behind |
Paleontology: | is the study of fossils. |
Relative Age | is the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other rocks and features near by |
Superposition | is the principle that undistributed rock layers and the oldest rocks are on the bottom |
inclusion | a piece of old rock becomes a new rock |
unconformity | is the surface where rocks have rotted away producing a break or gap in the rock record |
Correlation | matching rocks and fossils from separate locations |
index fossils | represents species that existed on earth for a short length of time |