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vobulary chapter 10
Term | Definition |
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Relative age | Is the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other rocks and features nearby. |
Superposition | Is the priniciple that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom. |
Inclusion | A piece of a older rock that becomes part of a new rock is called a inclusion. |
Unconformity | is a surface where rock has eroded away, producting a break, or gap, in the rock. |
Correlation | matching rocks and fossils from seperate locations is called correlation. |
Absolute age | to mean the numerical age, in years, of a rock or objects. |
Isotopes | are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutron |
Radioactive decay | is the process by which on unstable element naturally changes into another element that is stable |
Fossils | are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things. |
Catastrophism | is the idea that condidtions and organisms on earth change in quick, violent events. |
Uniformitarianism | states that geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that have occured in the past. |
Carbon film | is the fossilized carbon outline of an organism or part of an organism. |
Mold | is the impression in a rock left by an ancient organism. |
Cast | is a fossil copy of an organism made when a mold of the organism is filled with sediment or mineral deposits |
Trace fossil | is the preserved evidence of the activity of a organism |
Paleontologists | scientist who study fossils are called paleontologist |
Half-Life | is the time required for half of the parent isotopes to decay into daughter isotopes |
Index Fossil | a fossil representative of a species that existed on earth for a short period of time was abundant and inhabited many locations |