Unit 4 Lesson 1: Geologic Change Over Time Vocab Quiz

What is Uniformitarianism?

• the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock

• a fossilized structure, such as a foot print or coprolite, that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or within soft sediment

• the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

• a principle that geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by current geologic processes

____________ is the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock.

• Uniformitarianism

• Fossils

• Trace Fossil

• Climate

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What is a trace fossil?

• the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock

• the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

• a fossilized structure, such as a foot print or coprolite, that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or within soft sediment

• a principle that geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by current geologic processes

__________ is the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.

• Trace Fossil

• Ice Core

• Climate

• Fossil

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What is Ice Core?

• a long cylinder of ice obtained from drilling through ice caps or ice sheets, used to study past climate

• the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

• the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock

• a fossilized structure, such as a foot print or coprolite, that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or within soft sediment

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What is sedimentary?

• the trace or remains of an organism that lived long ago, most commonly preserved in sedimentary rock

• a fossilized structure, such as a foot print or coprolite, that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity on or within soft sediment

• the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time

• the type of rock in which fossils are found

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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