History of Life
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- Q1scientist who studies fossilspaleontologist30s
- Q2information about past life, including the structure of organisms, what they ate, what ate them, in what environment they lived, and the order in which they livedfossil record30s
- Q3term used to refer to a species that has died outextinct30s
- Q4method of determining the age of a fossil by comparing its placement with that of fossils i other layers of rockrelative dating30s
- Q5fossils of easily recognized species used to compare the relative ages of fossilsindex fossil30s
- Q6length of time required for half of the radioactive atoms in a sample to decayhalf-life30s
- Q7technique in which scientists calculate the age of a sample based on the amount of remaining radioactive isotopes it containsradioactive dating30s
- Q8scale used by paleontologists to represent evolutionary timegeologic time scale30s
- Q9one of several subdivisions of the time between the Precambrian and the present; made up of periodsera30s
- Q10unit of time into which eras are subdividedperiod30s
- Q11event in which many types of living things become extinct at the same timemass extinction30s
- Q12body parts, eggs, and footprintsexamples of fossils30s
- Q13where most fossils formsedimentary rock30s
- Q14Earth's most recent era; also called the Age of MammalsCenozoic30s
- Q15era that occurred after the Paleozoic; also called the Age of ReptilesMesozoic30s