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Fossils Vocabulary 1 Vocabulary 2
He was a farmer and physician who came
up with uniformitarianism.
A 100
Who was James Hutton?
A 100
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Hutton observed geological ______ on his
____ that prompted him to formulate the principle of
uniformitarianism.
A 200
What are geological
changes on his farm?
A 200
Using the Law of Superposition
gives a ______ age.
A 300
What is relative?
A 300
Before the idea of uniformitarianism, people believed the earth was ______
years old. A 400
What is 6,000?
A 400
Relative age indicates only that one rock
formation is _____ or _______ than another
rock formation.
A 500
What is younger or
older?
A 500
B 100
Scientist can study the rates of ______ in a stream to help estimate absolute
age.
What is erosion?
B 100
Using rates of erosion is not dependable for
features like the Grand Canyon because…
B 200
What is the rates vary greatly over millions of years?
B 200
Another way to estimate absolute age is to calculate the rate
of sediment deposition. This is not
always accurate because…
B 300
What is the rates of deposition can
vary such as during a flood ?
B 300
Varve count is similar to counting ….
B 400
What are growth rings in a tree’s trunk?
(tree rings)
B 400
B 500
Sedimentary deposits in glacial lakes that are form varves
consisting of _____ colored and ______ colored layers.
What are light and dark colored layers?
B 500
Rocks generally contain small amounts of
radioactive material that act as natural
______.
C 100
What are clocks?
C 100
Scientist use the natural breakdown
of isotopes to accurately measure
______ age in rocks.
C 200
What is absolute age?
C 200
Scientist compare the amount of ____ and _____ isotopes to
determine the absolute age of the rock.
C 300
What are parent and daughter?
C 300
DAILY DOUBLE
C 400
DAILY DOUBLE
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It would take ____ half-lives for ¼ of
the parent isotope to remain.
C 400
What is two?
C 400
To date dead organic materials, scientist can use _____ dating which uses the rate of decay of
______ 14 in the materials.
(same word for both)C 500
What is carbon?
C 500
Fossils can be used to help determine _______
and _______ age
D 100
What are relative and absolute?
D 100
Fossils can provide information about
_______ changes that occurred in Earth’s
history.
D 200
What are geological or
climate changes?
D 200
Only organisms that are ______ quickly or protected from ____ can become fossils.
D 300
What are buried quickly and protected from decay?
D 300
Generally, these parts of organisms form fossils…
(name 3 of 4)
D 400
What are wood, bones, teeth, and
shells?
D 400
Name 3 of the 5 ways a fossil can form…
D 500
What are mummification, amber, tar seeps,
freezing, and petrification?
D 500
The principle that states the geological
processes of the present are the same
geological processes of the past.
E 100
What is uniformitarianism
?
E 100
The age of an object in
relation to the ages of other
objects…E 200
What is relative age?
E 200
The law that states that a sedimentary rock layer is older
than the layer above it and younger than
those below it.
E 300
What is the law of
superposition?
E 300
Layers of rock are called…
E 400
What is strata?
E 400
E 500
A banded layer of sand and silt that is
deposited annually in a lake that can be used to determine
absolute age
What is varve?
E 500
The remains of animals or plants that
lived in a previous geologic time are
called…
F 100
What are fossils?
F 100
The scientific study of fossils…
F 200
What is paleontology?
F 200
A fossilized mark that formed in
sedimentary rock by the movement of an animal on or within
soft sediment…
F 300
What is trace fossil?
F 300
A fossil that is used to establish the age of rock
layers because it is distinct, abundant, and widespread
and existed for only a short span of geologic time…
F 400
What is index fossil?
F 400
Fossilized dung or waste materials from ancient animals are
called
F 500
What are coprolites?
F 500
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The 3 of 4 characteristics that define an index fossil…
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What are occur in wide area, clearly identified from other
fossils, existed in short time span, occurred in large numbers?
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