Geology Vocabluary
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| Geology | The science that examines earth.
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| Physical Geology | A major division of geology that examines the materials o earth and seeks to understand the process and forces beneath and upon earth.
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| Historical Geology | A division of geology that studies earths origin.
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| Catastrophism | The concept that earth was shaped by events in time.
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| Uniformitarianism | That the shaping of earth over time still is important today.
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| Relative Dating | Placing things in chronological order
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| law of Superposition | The layering and sequence.
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| Principle of Faunal Succession | The fossils are place in order by which they came from.
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| Hypothesis | A reasonable question that is tested and answered.
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| Theory | A well tested and widely accepted view that explains certain facts
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