Life Science
A term that encompasses all scientific pursuits related to living organisms.
What is Life Science?
This is what we call ancient Egyptian writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
This is the decayed remains of once-living organisms.
What is humus?
This is rock that has undergone change, usually due to heat and/or pressure.
What is Metamorphic rock?
The process by which rocks are broken down to form sediments.
What is weathering?
This is the study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is archaeology?
This test asks the question is a document internally consistent.
What is an Internal Test?
These are the 4 other components found in soil.
What are gravel, sand, silt, and clay?
An inorganic crystalline substance found naturally in the earth.
What are minerals?
What are physical and chemical weathering?
These are objects made by people such as tools, weapons, containers, etc.
What are artifacts?
This test asks the question: Does the documents contradict other known historical facts?
What is an External Test?
These are the 3 basic kinds of rocks.
What are sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic rock?
Layers found in sedimentary rock.
What are strata?
The process by which rock and soil are broken down and transported away.
What is erosion?
The study of Earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the earth.
What is Geology?
What is a Bibliographic Test?
The rock are formed by sediments that are ladies down by water or some other agent.
What is sedimentary rock?
This is what we call a single layer of rock measuring less than 1 c.m. thick.
If a large rock falls on a smaller rock and crushes it to pieces. What form of weathering is this?
The study of life's history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms.
What is Paleontology?
These are copies of a work made by different people.
What are supporting documents?
These rocks are formed by molten rock, usually called magma.
What are igneous rocks?
Several layers of lamination together are called.
What are laminae?
Our steel wool lab was a demonstration of this form of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?