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Fossils
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Are the hard parts of organisms mostly the fossils? | Yes |
| What is the stable atom | The daughter |
| What is the unstable atom | The parent |
| What happens if the nucleus is unstable | It will break apart |
| Why do geologist use relative dating | Placing the rock layer in oldest to youngest |
| What is the law of cross cutting | It's younger than the rock it cuts through |
| What is an index fossil | A fossil marking time |
| Uniformitarianism | A principle that geological processes that occurred in the past can be explained by the current geologic processes |
| Trace fossil | A fossilized structure, such as a footprint or a coprolite that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or within soft sediment |
| Fossil | The trace it remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock |
| Climate | The weather conditions in an area over a long period of time |
| Ice core | A long cylinder ice obtained from drilling through ice caps or ic sheets, used to study past climates |
| Changes in climate | In places that are warm on earth might have been cooler millions of years ago |
| How old is earth | 4.6 billion years old |
| Where are fossils usually found | Sedimentary rock |
| Mammoths are found preserved in | permafrost/ice |