Fossil Record Vocab

Question 1

Uniformitarianism

Answer 1

It’s a theory that changes the earth’s crust during geological history. Creates a Contagious and uniform event.

Question 2

Catastrophism

Answer 2

A change in the earth’s crust that creates sudden violent and unusual events.

Question 3

Paleontology

Answer 3

The science study of life in the geological past. Focusing on fossilized remains and organisms that have passed.

Question 4

Relative Dating

Answer 4

Determining how younger or older they are compared to each other without knowing the actual ages.

Question 5

Absolute Dating

Answer 5

measuring the physical properties of an object itself and use the measurements to calculate its age.

Question 6

Superposition

Answer 6

The way the rocks stack on top of each other and the oldest rocks being on top.

Question 7

isotope

Answer 7

atoms with the same number of protons but they’re in but different types of neutrons.