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facts on fossils
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Relative Age | An age of something in comparison to the age of other things. |
| Uncomformities | Gaps in rock sequences. |
| Absolute Age | The age,in years of a rock or other objects. |
| Radioactive Decay | The process of breaking down. |
| Half-Life | Time it takes for half the atoms of an insotope to decay. |
| Radiometric dating | Process used to calculate the absolute age of rock by measuring the ratio of parent isotope to daughter product in a mineral and knowing the half-life of the parent. |
| Uniformitarianism | A principal stating that Earth process occuring today are similar to those that occured in the past. |