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Chapter 7 Jared
Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| contenential drift | the theory that all continents made on big continent |
| uniformitarism | the idea that earths processes that are at work today were in the past |
| superposition | the theory that in a stack of rocks the oldest rock is on the bottom |
| sedimentary rock | one of the three types of rocks |
| Pangaea | the theory that there was a super continent |
| plate tectonics | the system of the plates movements |
| fossil record | information about what an organism looks like, where it lives and how it evolved |
| absolute dating | calculated by using half-lifes of certain isotopes |
| estimation | an approximate calculation of quantity |
| radioactive decay | when an unstable atomic nucleus changes to another nucleus |
| igneous rock | one of the three types of rocks |
| relative dating | age based objects found at the same site |
| half-life | the time it takes a a given amount of radioactive isotope to decay to half its mass |
| atom | the particles that make the world |
| index fossil | the fossilized remains of an organism that existed over areas for a short period of time |