Semester 1 Geoscience Final Exam

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Who observed the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud while sailing the Earth around 1520?

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Ferdinand Magellan

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What are pieces of one rock unit that are contained within another called?

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Inclusions

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What principle states that layers are originally deposited horizontally?

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Principle of Original Horizontality

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What is a cloud of dust and gases where stars and planets are born?

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Nebulae

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What states that the undeformed sequence of sedimentary rock bed is older than the rocks above it and younger than those below?

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Law of Superposition

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What is the term for the process of determining the relative age of rock layers?

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Relative Dating

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What principle suggests that the present is the key to the past in geological processes?

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Uniformitarianism

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What are the remnants or traces of ancient organisms preserved in rocks called?

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Fossils

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What is the term for the arrangement of sedimentary rocks in layers?

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Stratification

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What is the geological principle that states that sedimentary rocks are deposited in horizontal layers?

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Principle of Original Horizontality