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Geology Vocabluary
Question | Answer |
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Geology | The science that examines earth. |
Physical Geology | A major division of geology that examines the materials o earth and seeks to understand the process and forces beneath and upon earth. |
Historical Geology | A division of geology that studies earths origin. |
Catastrophism | The concept that earth was shaped by events in time. |
Uniformitarianism | That the shaping of earth over time still is important today. |
Relative Dating | Placing things in chronological order |
law of Superposition | The layering and sequence. |
Principle of Faunal Succession | The fossils are place in order by which they came from. |
Hypothesis | A reasonable question that is tested and answered. |
Theory | A well tested and widely accepted view that explains certain facts |