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method for studying climate change by drilling cores in ice caps and glaciers
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Ice Cores
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A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
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Natural Selection
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method for studying climate change by drilling cores in ice caps and glaciers
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A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits.
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Earth's first era that began 4.6 billion years ago that includes creation of the Sun, Earth, the atmosphere, oceans and life
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Age of reptiles; dinosaurs
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Age of fish; early invertebrates
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Age of mammals
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Gaps is rock layer sequence caused by erosion
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Longest span of geological time
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Shortest span of geological time
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Structures in different species that are similar because of common ancestry.
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Body parts that share a common function, but not structure
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Process of fossil formation that occurs as the original object is compressed to leave an imprint made of only carbon
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A type of fossil that provides evidence of the activities of ancient organisms
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a space in a rock that has the shape of the remains of a living thing that once occupied that space.
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forms when a mold is filled with sand or mud that hardens into the shape of the organism
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"Fossil turns into stone" through permineralization
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The top rock layer and its fossils is the youngest and the bottom is the oldest.
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length of time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decay; parent atoms to daughter atoms
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characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment
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Forms when entire organisms or parts of organisms are prevented from decaying by being trapped in rock, ice, tar, or amber
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a method to determine how old a fossil is in years by using radioactive elements called isotopes (Carbon-14)
