Geologic Evolution
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| This principle states that younger rocks lie above older rocks as long as the rock layers have not been disturbed. | Law of Superposition
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| Determining whether how old or young a rock layer is "relatively" to the rock layers around it. | Relative Dating
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| A surface that represents a missing part of a rock layer sequence. | Unconformity
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| Any method of measuring the age of an event or object in years. | Absolute Dating
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| The remains or physical evidence of an organism preserved by geologic processes. | Fossil
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| A scale that accounts for the Earth's entire history divided into distinct intervals of time. | Geologic Time
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| When molten rock from the Earth's Interior squeezes into existing rock and cools. | Intrusion
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| A crack or break in the Earth's crust. | Fault
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| When rock layers bend and buckle from Earth's internal forces. | Folding
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| When rock layers slant due to internal forces inside Earth. | Tilting
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| Fossils that are wide-spread, have distinct characteristics, and lived for a relatively short geologic time span. | Index fossil
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| The hypothesis that states that continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations. | Continental Drift
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| This process creates new oceanic lithosphere at mid-ocean ridges. | Seafloor Spreading
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| Where plate boundaries collide. | Convergent Boundaries
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| Where plate boundaries slide past each other horizontally. | Transform Boundary
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| The type of plate boundaries that exists where seafloor spreading occurs. | Divergent Boundary
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| Satellite systems used to measure plate tectonic activity. | GPS
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| The principle that states that past geologic processes which shape the Earth have been at work throughout Earth's history. | Uniformitarianism
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| The principle that states that all geologic change occurs suddenly. | Catastrophism
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| Any naturally preserved evidence of animal activity. | Trace Fossil
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| Death of every member of a species. | Extinction
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| Cylinders of ice that obtains trapped gases from the atmosphere and is used to study Earth's past climate. | Ice cores
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