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CH 10
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fossils | Are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things |
| Catastrophism | Is the idea that conditions and organisms on earth change in quick, violent events |
| Uniformitarianism | States that geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that have occurred 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 mode of the organism is filled with sediment or mineral deposits |
| Trace fossil | Is the preserved evidence of the activity of an organism |
| Paleontologists | Use the principle of uniformitaranism to learn about ancient organisms lived |
| relative age | is the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other rocks and features nearby |
| surperposition | is the first principle that in undisturbed rock layers the oldest |
| Inclasion | a piece of on older rock that becomes part of a new rock is called Incuion |
| unconformity | is a surface where rock has eroded away producing a break or gap in the rock record |
| correlation | matching rocks and fossils form separate locations is called correlation |
| Index fossils | represent species that existed on earth for a short length of time were a bunny and inhabited many locations |
| absolute gap | to mean me rumerical orge in years of a rock or object |
| isotpoes | are atoms of the same element that have different himbers of heutrohs |
| radioactive decay | is the process by which an unstable element naturally changes in to another element that is staple |
| half-life | is the time required for half of the parent isotopes to decoy do-ughter isotopes |