Earth
The mantle and the crust together
What is the Lithosphere?
When rocks are aged from bottom to top, bottom being the oldest and top being youngest
What is law of superposition?
How old the earth is
What is 4.5 Billion years?
Plate boundary that moves away
What is divergent?
The definite age of a fossil
What is absolute age?
The part of the Earth made of nickle
What is the core?
Rock formed by sediments
What is sedimentary?
The idea that the earth was shaped by chaos and big sudden events
What is Catastrophism?
Plate boundary that moves into each other
What is convergent?
the age of a fossil by determining layers and similar ages
What is relative age?
The part of the Earth in which convection takes place
What is the mantle?
Rock formed from heat and pressure
What is metamorphic?
The idea that earth was shaped slowly over time
What is uniformitarianism?
Plate boundary that moves alongside each other
What is Transform?
Type of volcano that has the potential to errupt
What is Dormant?
The part of the Earth that we live on
What is the crust?
Rock formed from magma cooling
What is igneous?
The number of mass extinctions that have occured
What is 5
Area where the plate is being pulled into the Earth during convergent boundary
What is subduction zone?
The study of earth and how it was formed
What is geology?
The earth's layers in order from inner to outer
What is the inner core, outer core, mantle, then crust?
The study of rock layers
What is stratography?
The era we live in currently
What is the Cenozoic?
When magma is moved in a circular motion due to varying heat inside the earth
What is convection current?
An important fossil widely distributed to help determine ages of other fossils
What is index fossil?