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Fossils
Rock Types
Grand Canyon/ Colorado Plateu
Vocab and Essay Questions
Miscellaneous
100
A trace or remanent preserved or embedded in a rock...
What is a fossil?
100
Main difference between the three rock types...
What is how they form?
100
The Grand Canyon formed __________ years ago...
What is 10 million years?
100
Earth processes are going on all the time.Destructive processes break down landforms and constructive processes build landforms...
How is earth constantly recreating its surface?
100
Earth was formed...
What is 4.5 billion years ago?
200
A fossil that lived for a short time in many places around the world...
What is Index Fossil?
200
The thing all three rock types have in common...
What is made of minerals?
200
The grand cayon forms in a way that states that new layers form over old layer...
What is Law of Horizontality?
200
a series of processes that causes one type of rock to change to another. It has been going on since Earth formed and will continue as llong as Earth exists...
What is the rock cycle?
200
Uses numbers to show how many years ago different things happened...
What is numerical time scale?
300
A fossil that reveals that there was a swamp or jungle where it is found...
What is coal?
300
Metamorphic, Igneous, and Sedmintary...
What are the three types of rocks?
300
The Grand Canyon reveals rock from up to _________ years ago...
What is 1.7 billion years ago?
300
In the limewater experiment the lime water represented __________; blowing air in the water represented __________; and the experiment showed______________...
What is ancient sea water, marine organisms exhailing, and that with no co2 no calcite?
300
Shows how different parts of Earths history compared to the whole...
What is proportional time scale?
400
A fossil that reveals that there was an acient ocean...
What is Limestone?
400
Rock types that can change do to heat and or pressure...
What are all three rock types?
400
Colorado Plateu goes through these four states...
What is Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico?
400
Landforms shaped liked steps or cliffs; happens when the soft weak blows away and leaves behind the strong hard rock...
What is differential erosion?
400
Humans have existed for about...
What is 200,000 years?
500
This rock type is more likely to have fossils in it than the other types of rock...
What is a Sedmentary rock?
500
Quartz,Marble and Slate are this type of rock...
What is Metamorphic rocks?
500
The Colorado River cut through the_________ causing the ____________...
What is Colorado Plateu; Grand Canyon?
500
A word that means to find a relationship or connection between rock layers from two or more locations...
What is correlation?
500
Found tobmstone layer and is called father of modern geology...
What is Hutton?