Earth History Review

A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth's history.

• Radioactive Decay

• Geologic Time Scale

• Mechanical Weathering

• Relative Age

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.

• Fossil

• Extinct

• Pangea

• Fault

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The study of body structure

• Anatomy

• Unconformity

• Genetics

• Extinct

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NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past

• Fossil

• Index Fossil

• Pangea

• Intrusion

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

fossils of widely distributed organisms that lived during only one short period

• Relative Age

• Index Fossil

• Intrusion

• Unconformity

The geologic principle that states that in horizontal layers of sedimentary rock, each layer is older than the layer above it and younger than the layer below it.

• Absolute Age

• Chemical Weathering

• Law of Superposition

• Radioactive Decay

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A break in the earth's crust

• Unconformity

• Fault

• Anatomy

• Extinct

A principle that geologic processes that occurred in the past can be explained by current geologic processes.

• Natural Selection

• Unconformity

• Geologic Time Scale

• Uniformitarianism

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-1

a species no longer in existence

• Genetics

• Extinct

• Anatomy

• Fault

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

An igneous rock layer formed when magma hardens beneath Earth's surface.

• Variation

• Intrusion

• Index Fossil

• Evolution

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1