Infer the age of Earth and relative age of rocks and fossils from index fossils and ordering of rock layers (relative dating and radioactive dating).
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The preserved remains or traces of living things.
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Evolution
Carbon film
Extinct
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The type of rock that is made of hardened sediment.
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Extrusion
Sedimentary rock
Index Fossil
Petrified Fossil
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The preserved remains or traces of living things.
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The type of rock that is made of hardened sediment.
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A fossil formed when an organism buried in sediment dissolves, leaving a hollow area.
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Fossils of widely distributed organisms that lived during only one short period.
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A fossil in which minerals replace all or part of an organism.
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A type of fossil consisting of an extremely thin coating of carbon on rock.
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A type of fossil that provides evidence of the activities of ancient organisms.
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A scientist who studies fossils to learn about organisms that lived long ago.
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The process by which all the different kinds of living things have changed over time.
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Describes a type of organism that no longer exists anywhere on Earth.
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The age of a rock compared to the ages of rock layers.
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The age of a rock given as the number of years since the rock formed.
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The geologic principle that states that in horizontal layers of sedimentary rock. Each layer is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it.
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An igneous rock layer formed when lava flows onto Earth's surface and hardens.
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An igneous rock layer formed when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface.
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A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move.
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A place where an old, eroded rock surface is in contact with a newer rock layer.
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The breakdown of a radioactive element, releasing particles and energy.
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The length of time needed for half of the atoms of a sample of a radioactive isotope to decay.
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A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history.
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One of the three long units of geologic time between the Precambrian and the present.
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One of the units of geologic time into which geologists divide eras.
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When many types of living things become extinct at the same time.
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The same geologic processes going on now, like faulting and erosion, were also going on in the past.
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Method that provides objective age estimates for carbon-based materials that originated from living organisms
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As sediments settle from water, they form horizontal layers of rock. Non-horizontal layers must have suffered some disturbance after they formed.
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If layers of sedimentary rock are not disturbed or deformed, they oldest layers lies on the bottom, with younger layers on top.
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Layers of sedimentary rock generally extend in all directions until the original sediments stopped at the edge of the basin where they were deposited.
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When sedimentary rocks in horizontal layers are tilted and uplifted.
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When there are layers missing.
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Have no nucleus.
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a glacial episode during a past geological period.
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One of the most common Paleozoic organisms.
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supercontinent that included all current land masses, believed to have been in existence before the continents broke apart during the Triassic and Jurassic Periods.
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Creation of a new species
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The Earth's atmospheric temperature was raised by thousands of degrees, due to the intense heat of the blasted particles.
