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CH.10 Vocab Words
Term | Definition |
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Fossil | The preserved remains of ancient living things. |
Catastrophism | The idea that conditions and organisms on Earth chnage in quick, violent events. |
Uniformitarianism | States that geologic process that occur today are similar to those that have occured in the past. |
Carbon Film | The fossilized carbon outline of an organism or a part of an organism. |
Mold | The impression in a rock left by an ancient organism. |
Cast | A fossilcopy of an organism made when a mold of the organism is filled with sediment or mineral deposits. |
Trace Fossil | The preserved evidence of the activity of an organism. |
Palentologist | Scientists who study fossils. |
Relative Age | |
Superposition | |
Inclusion | |
Unconformity | |
Correlation | |
Index Fossil |