This type of rock is formed from lava.
What is an igneous rock?
A trace of remains (imprint of an animal) in Earths crust.
What is a fossil?
This law simply says that the older layers of earth tend to be found at the bottom of the strata and the younger ones are on top.
What is the Law of Superposition?
Another word for super continent.
What is Pangaea?
This occurs when the vibration of 1 object makes a second object to vibrate.
What is resonance?
These are the three types of rocks.
What are Sedimentary, Metamorphic, and Igneous rocks?
This is a fossil that characterizes a particular period of time.
What is an Index Fossil?
Units of Earth's history (from largest to smallest)
Eon, Era, Period, Epoch
What is correlation?
These are the 2 main kinds of waves. Tell which needs a medium.
Mechanical (medium) and Electromagnetic
These rocks that formed due to the application of heat and pressure.
What are Metamorphic Rock?
This type of rocks are most likely to contain fossils.
What are Sedimentary rocks?
This is the current era in Earth's history.
What is the Cenezoic era?
Possible causes of mass extinctions.
Volcanoes, Climate Change, Ice Ages, Meteorite
The series of glacial episodes during the Pleistocene period is this.
What is an Ice Age?
This is the type of rock obsidian is.
What is igneous?
This 550 million year old fossil is.
What is a Trilobite?
Fossil that lived for a short amount of time in a variety of different locations
What is an index fossil?
Identify the parts of the wave shown above.
a. crest
b. trough
c. amplitude
d. wavelength
List at least 4 wave interactions.
Reflection, Refraction, Interaction, Diffraction, Absorption, Transmission, Reveration
There are this many processes in the rock cycle?
What is 5?
This dating process is how we know exactly how old fossils are.
What is Radiometric Dating?
This type of dating gives only an estimated age of the rock strata.
What is relative dating?
This is the number of mass extinctions that have occurred so far in Earth's history.
What is 5?
These are the extinction statistics for the Permian Mass Extinction.
What is 95% loss of marine life and 70% loss of land life?