Key Vocabulary for Fossils Learning Check
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| Fossil | the preserved remains or traces of living things
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| sedimentary rock | the rock in which most fossils are found
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| petrified fossil | organism that has been turned to stone
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| trace fossil | provide evidence of the activities of an ancient organism, such as footprints, tail tracks
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| extinct | a type of organism that no longer exists on Earth
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| evolution | the process by which all the different kinds of living things have chnaged over long periods of time to adapt to their environment
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| mold | a hollow area of sediment that shows the shape and size of an organism
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| cast | a copy of the shape of the organism
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| Law of Original Horizontality | All rock layers are laid down in a flat (horizontal) position
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| Law of Superposition | Each rock layer is older than the layer above it (rocks go older to younger from bottom to top)
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| Relative Age | the age of an object or event in comparison to another object or event
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| Absolute Age | The actual age of rock or fossil
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| Erosion | when a rock layer is changed by wind, water or ice
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| Folding | when rock layers are moved from underneath, causing layers to look like a rainbow
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| Faulted | a break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move.
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| tilted | When unequal forces within the Earth push up in one area
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| Intrusion | when lava rises from deep within the Earth but does not go onto the surface
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