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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Uniformitarianism | States the geologic process that happened in the past that can be explained be current geologic processes. |
| Fossil | Remains of an organism long ago. |
| Trace fossil | a fossilized structure that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or in soft sediment. |
| Climate | The weather conditions. |
| Ice core | a long cylinder of icecap. |
| Relative dating | Determining weather an object is younger or older than others. |
| Superposition | The principle that states younger rock is always naturally above older rock. |
| Unconformity | A break in the geologic record that is made when rock layers are eroded. |
| Geologic column | an ordered arrangement or rock layers. |
| bands | how much snow or water fell that year. |