Earth's Changing Crust
The two types of crust.
What is oceanic and continental crust?
The branch of paleontology that deals with the processes of fossilization.
What is taphonomy?
Plate boundaries that move apart from each other.
What are divergent plate boundaries?
The specific name for the Paleozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
What are eras?
The event that will most likely occur where two plates move in different directions and slide against each other.
What is an earthquake?
The category in which the horseshoe crab is in.
What is a living organism?
Plate boundaries that collide with each other.
What are convergent plate boundaries?
The shortest division on the geologic time scale.
What is an epoch?
The action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock or dissolved material from one location on the Earth’s crust.
What is Erosion?
Fossils of the animal or animal part.
What are true form fossils?
Plate boundaries that slide past each other.
What are transform plate boundaries?
The longest time span in the Geologic Time Scale.
What was the Precambrian time period?
The type of crust that is less dense than oceanic crust.
What is continental crust?
fossils that form when minerals replace all or part of an organism.
What are petrified fossils?
A type of arc that forms above a subduction zone.
What are arc volcanoes?
The Era with the largest extinction.
What was the Palaeozoic time period?
The two materials that make the lithosphere.
What are crust and upper mantle?
A tool used for breaking or chipping rocks from fossils.
What are rock hammers?
One of the pieces of evidence that proved continental drift.
What was fossil ferns?
The most recent era in history according to the geological time scale.
What is the Cenozoic time period?