Stars
Clouds of gas and dust
What is a Nebula?
What is crust, mantle, core?
Fossil that shows animal activity but not form
What is a Trace Fossil?
Types of rocks
What are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic?
Heaviest element in star core
What is iron?
The lightest crust type
What is continental crust?
This is how fossils are formed
What happens when living organism is buried in sediment?
Process to determine rock age
What is relative dating?
Color used to depict hottest star
what is white?
Type of plate boundaries that create ridges
What are divergent plate boundaries?
Definition of a fossil
What are preserved remains of ancient animals?
Principle that says layer on top is more recent
What is principle of superposition?
The diameter of the sun
What is 864,938 miles?
Name of land where all continents were joined
What is Pangea?
Method to age fossils
What is radioactive decay?
Principle that states that object cutting across another is younger than the one it's cutting across
What are cross cutting relationships?
The constellation with the most stars
What is Centaurus?
The largest volcano
What is Mauna Loa?
The biggest dinosaur fossil
What is Australotitan cooperensis?
The time when an asteroid changed soil
What happened 66 million years ago?