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Fossils 7068b
Definition and Facts about Fossils
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Relative age | The age of something compared with other things |
| Unconformities- | gaps in the rock layer that is due to eroison or periods without any depostion |
| Absolute age | age in years of a rock or other objects, can be determined by using proreties of the atoms that make up the materials |
| Radioactive decay | process in which some isotopes break down into other isotopes and particles |
| Half- life | Time it takes for half the atoms of an isotopes to decay |
| Radiometric Dating | process used to calculate the absolute age of rock by measuring the ratio of parent isotope to daughter production in a mineral and knowing the half life of the parent |
| Uniformitarianism | Principle stating that Earth process occuring today are similar to those that occurred in the past |