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Rocks
Super Position
Geologic Process
Random (again)
100
The scientific study of fossils.
What is paleontology
100
What are the three types of rocks
What is igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary
100
Do the younger rocks lie above or below the older rocks?
What is above
100
A break in earth's crust along which blocks of the crust slide relative to one another
What is faulting
100
The Grand Canyon was mostly formed from what
What is water
200
The history of the earth would be incomplete without __________________
What is knowledge of organisms
200
Type of rock in which there are many layers stuck together through weathering, erosion, and pressure
What is sedimentary rock
200
What is any method of determining an event or object is older or younger than other events or objects?
What is Relative Dating
200
Occurs when internal forces slant rock layers
What is tilting
200
Decay occurs at a _______ rate
What is steady
300
The remains of organisms preserved by geologic processes
What is fossils
300
Type of rock composed of lava (magma)
What is igneous rock
300
Using the principle of super position scientists can do what things?
What is determine the age of rocks, fossils, and organisms within that layer
300
Occurs when rock layers bend and buckle from earth's interior forces
What is folding
400
Thye principle that younger rocks lie above older rocks
What is the principle of superposition
400
A type of rock formed in the mantle of the earth by heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock
400
Natural disturbances can throw off the principle of super position by creating what?
What is faulting tilting folding intrusion
400
Molten rock from the earth's interior that squeezes into existing rock and cools
What is intrusion
500
What do scientists call unstable isotopes
What is radioactive
500
How do scientists determine the absolute age of rocks?
What is analyze isotopes of radioactive elements
500
What is the principle that states that younger rocks lie above older rocks
What is superposition
500
What are the four geologic processes
What is faulting, intrusion, tilting, and folding
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