Types of Fossils/Index Fossils/relative dating
The study of life from prehistoric times
What is paleontology?
The importance of radiometric dating
What is the age of rock?
Because of the rise of a certain species, this age is referred to as (blank)
What is Age of Reptiles?
A biological class that evolved from amphibians in the Paleozoic era
What is reptiles?
Material is hardened into an amber fossil
What is tree sap/resin?
Radioactive decay happens to achieve this
What is a stable nucleus?
Dramatically ended this era
What is a meteor?
A super-continent formed during the Carboniferous era
What is Pangaea?
Contact metamorphism is a result heat being applied by this substance
What is Magma?
The half life of Carbon-14
what is ~5730 years?
Resulted in extremely large insects
What is an abundance of oxygen?
Breaks up the Devonian and Carboniferous era
What is extinction?
Wood that has had its biological compounds replaced with minerals
What is petrified wood?
Potassium-40 in a similar location to this other element
What is Rubidium-87?
2 major groups which inhabited land
What is gymnosperms and dinosaurs?
This major mountain range formed
What is the Alps?
Force applied to sediment on a fossil resulting in carbonaceous film
What is high temp and/or pressure?
The process that Potassium-40 goes under in its half life
What is electron capture?
An animal from the Mesozoic Era that is understood to be related to modern day Chickens
What is T-rex?
This major body structure developed for the first time in the Paleozoic era
What is spine?