Geologi Time Review

Used to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred throughout Earth's history

• absolute age

• Law of Superposition

• classification

• geologic time scale

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A time scale- 2 or more of these form an era (it is shorter than an era). It cross-references rocks and geological events.

• stratigraphy

• eon

• era

• period

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The most recent era of geologic time, from 65 million years ago to the present.

• Paleozoic

• Triassic

• Cambrian

• Cenozoic

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

When many organisms become extinct at one time.

• absolute age

• relative age

• mass extinction

• index fossil

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A preserved remain of an organism that gives us a history of the Earth.

• geologist

• stratigraphy

• fossil

• epoch

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A preserved remain of an organism that can be used to date formation in which it is found.

• index fossil

• absolute age

• paleontologist

• period

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The geologic age of fossil organism, rock, or geologic features or events defined relative of each other, determines whether a formation is older or younger than its surrounding formation (it does not give an exact age).

• stratigraphy

• absolute age

• chronological order

• relative age

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

States that in any undisturbed sequence of rocks deposited in layers, the youngest layer is on top and the oldest on bottom.

• stratigraphy

• classification

• Law of Superposition

• paleontology

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A person who specializes in research and study of the Earth.

• Earthologist

• Geologists

• Geographists

• Stratigrophists

A person who studies fossils.

• paleontologist

• dinosaurologist

• neurologist

• oceanologist

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2