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vocab 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| uniformitarianism | a principle geologic process that occured in the past can be explained |
| fossil | trace of an organism that lived long ago |
| trace fossil | a fossilized structure such as a footprint |
| climate | weather over a long period of time that formed in sedimennatray rock |
| ice core | long cylinder of ice obtained from drilling through ice caps |
| relative dating | determining if an object is older or younger objects or events |
| superposition | a princpiple that states that younger rocks lie above older rocks |
| unconformity | a break in geologic record when sediment is eroded |
| geologic column | an ordered arrangement of rock layers that is based on relative ages |
| absolute dating | any method of measuring age of an event in years |
| radioactive decay | radio active isotope tends to break a int stable isotope |
| half-life | the time requireed for a half sample of life of a radioactive decay |
| radiometric dating | a method of representing absolute age by measuring relative precentages. |