Geology
Inorganic crystalline substances found naturally in the earth
What are minerals?
Agent responsible for laying down most of the sedimentary rock in the world
What is water?
Fossils assumed to represent a certain period in earth's past
What are index fossils?
Soft tissue was found in the bone of this extinct animal
What is Tyrannosaurus rex?
A new process that improves our existence
What is technology?
Rock that forms from magma
What is igneous rock?
A fossil formed from a mold is this
What is a cast?
A model of the earth's past as shown by layers of rock from around the world meshed together
What is the geological column?
These geologists believe in an earth that is millions of years old
What are uniformitarians?
Counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree or associated artifacts
What is dendrochronology?
This type of rock undergoes change from heat and pressure
What is metamorphic rock?
Conversion of organic material into rock by mineral-rich water
What is petrifaction?
The theory that all life on earth came from one common ancestor
What is the Theory of Evolution?
These geologists believe the earth is young and was formed from catastrophes
What are catastrophists?
Surface of erosion between layers of rock that separates one layer from another
What is an unconformity?
Physical or chemical process by which rocks break down into sediments
What is weathering?
These types of creatures are found in amber-entombed fossils
What are insects?
The Cumberland Bone Cave is an example of this
What is a fossil graveyard?
These deposits found in the cliffs of Dover are a problem for catastrophists
What is chalk?
Part of an experiment that changes during the course of the experiment
What is a variable (or experimental variable)?
Cave deposits from dripping mineral-rich water that hang down from the ceiling
What are stalactites?
Fossils are found in this type of rock
What is sedimentary rock?
An animal fossil between two animals showing them evolving (possible example: Archaeopteryx)
What is an intermediate link?
This type of unconformity is a problem for uniformitarians
What is a paraconformity?
A species that was once living but now is not
What is extinct?