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Science Vocab. 562
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Hypothesis stating that continents slowley drift parallel to Earth's Surface | Continental Drift |
| The idea that Earth Process that are at work today | Uniformitarianism |
| The theory that undisturbed layers of rock have the oldest layers on the bottom and the youngest on the top | Superposition |
| Suplemantary Rock | |
| Ancient supercontinent that began breaking up 200 million years ago | Pangea |
| Theory that explains how lithospheric plates move and interact causing major geolgic features and evetents | Plate Techtonics |
| Information of what an organism looks like where it | Fossil Record |
| Calculated by using half-life of isotopes | Absolute Dating |
| An approxamate calculation of quantity | Estimation |
| When an unstable atomic nucleus changes to another nucles by emiting particles and energy | Radioactive Decay |
| Formed from molton or liquid or rock material called magma | Igneous Rock |
| Age base on objects found a the same sit half-life the time it takes a given | Relative Dating |