Ch. 4 Vocab
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Fossil | A trace or the remains of a once-living thing from long ago.
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| Original Remains | A fossil that is the actual body or body parts of an organism.
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| Ice Core | A tubular sample that shows the layers of snow and ice that have built up over the years.
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| Relative Age | The age of an event or object in relation to other events or objects.
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| Index Fossil | A fossil of an organism that was common, lived in many areas, and existed only during a certain span of time. Index fossils are used to help determine the age of rock layers.
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| Absolute Age | The actual age in years of an event or object.
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| Half-Life | The length of time it takes for half of the atoms in a sample of radioactive element to change from an unstable form into another form.
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| Uniformitarianism | A theory stating that the processes shaping Earth today, such as erosion and deposition, also shaped Earth in the past, and that these processes cause large changes over geologic time.
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| Geological Time Scale | The summary of Earth's history, divided into intervals of time defined by major events or changes on Earth.
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