ROCK CYCLE
NATURAL SELECTION
MISC.
HISTORY OF EARTH
VOCABULARY
100
Small particles of rock and dirt created by weathering and erosion.
What is sediment?
100
Having more offspring than can possibly survive.
What is overproduction?
100
A pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show the structure of workings of an object, system, or concept.
What is a model?
100
The process where rocks are broken down from large rocks into smaller rocks changed and formed into different types of rocks over time.
What is the Rock Cycle?
100
Trace remains of something that was once living.
What is a fossil?
200
Rock formed when layers of rock and dirt particles compact and cement together due to pressure.
What is sedimentary rock?
200
Having small differences in offspring that gives them a better chance for survival.
What is inherited variation?
200
A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
What is an adaptation?
200
A tool used to gage the age of rocks, by putting rock formations together.
What is a geological column?
200
To make or become varied.
What is diversification?
300
Rock formed by heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
300
Organisms living with disease, predators, and competition.
What is struggle to survive?
300
A genetically determined characteristic.
What is a trait?
300
Scientists use the amount of carbon depletion over time to determine the age of that fossil.
What is carbon dating?
300
The dying out of a complete species.
What is extinction?
400
Process by which large rocks are broken down into smaller rocks.
What is weathering?
400
The main adaption seen in Darwin's finches.
What is their beaks?
400
Three or more but more is better.
What is the amount of times you should test a hypothesis?
400
Can be formed when rocks break down, or when organism decompose.
What is soil?
400
An educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
500
When small particles of rock and sand are moved from one place to another and settles in low areas.
What is erosion?
500
Organisms that are best suited for their environment are able to pass their traits to the next generation.
What is successful reproduction?
500
This is found in some rocks, can decay over time, and can cause damage to cells.
What is radioactivity?
500
Documentation of the appearance, diversification, and extinction of many life forms.
What is the fossil record?
500
The belief that younger rock is found on top and older rock is found on the bottom of formations of undisturbed rock layers.
What is superposition?
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