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Geology Vocabluary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |