A map showing the measurement of ocean depths and the charting of the shape of the ocean floor.
What is a bathymetric map?
100
He is famous for his contributions to modern geology and relative dating?
Who is Steno?
100
Steno's law that says- the top layer is the youngest and the bottom layer is the oldest.
What is Superposition?
100
When minerals replace all or part of the organism.
What is petrified fossil?
200
A map that shows surface features of an area by using contour lines to show changes in elevation.
What is topographic map?
200
Used to measure depths currently.
What is SONAR?
200
A method of put events in order of which they happened.
What is relative dating?
200
Bits of rock that get surrounded by sediment or melted rock that hardens; it is older than the rock that surrounds it.
What are inclusions?
What are inclusions?
200
A type of fossil that provides evidence of the activities of ancient organisms.
What is trace fossil?
300
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest parts of an area.
What is relief?
300
Two ways to show depth on a bathymetric map.
What is color and contour lines?
300
A famous, deeply eroded river bed in the southwest United States.
What is Grand Canyon?
300
The law that says - A canyon is between two layers of rock but they are the same.
What is the law of cross-cutting relationships?
300
When amber, tar, or ice keeps the fossil in its original state.
What are preserved remains?
400
When contour lines that are close together on a topographic map.
What is a steep slope?
400
Used to measure early ocean depths.
What are heavy, premeasured ropes?
400
The age of a rock compared with the age of other rocks.
What is relative age?
400
Molten rock from the Earth's interior that squeezes into existing rock through a crack or vein, and then cools; it is younger than the layers it cuts across
What is intrusion?
400
When a fossil only existed for a brief period of time and is widely distributed.
What is an index fossil?
500
If a group of hikers stay on the same contour line, what dose this mean?
What is they will stay at the same elevation?
500
The deepest place in the ocean, 1125 meters.
What is the challenger deep?
500
4.5 billion years.
What is the age of the Earth?
500
Original horizontality, superposition, Lateral Continuity and Cross-cutting Relationships.
What are Steno's laws?
500
Preserved remains, petrified, mold, cast, carbon film, and trace.