Geologic History Vocab

Preserved remains or traces of living things.

• Flora

• Fossil

• Fauna

• Stratigraphy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The numeric age of a layer of rocks or fossils. It can be determined with radiometric dating.

• Fossil Record

• Relative Age

• Law of Superposition

• Absolute Age

Describes the age of an object or event compared to another object or event. Does not give a definite date.

• Relative Age

• Absolute Age

• Law of Superspostion

• Fossil Record

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

All the plant life in a particular region, or period

• Fossil

• Fauna

• Flora

• Flowers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All the animal life in a particular region or period.

• Fossil

• Fauna

• Flora

• Flowers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Chronological collection of life's remains in sedimentary rock layers.

• Absolute Age

• Relative Age

• Fossil Record

• Index Fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

A fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which its found.

• Index Fossil

• Flora

• Fauna

• stratigraphy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

In undisturbed rock layers, the layer on the bottom is the oldest rock and the layer on top is the youngest rock, (used to determine relative age).

• Absolute Age

• Flora

• Fossil Record

• Law of Superposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The categories of time into which Earth's history is usually divided by geologists and paleontologists: eons, eras, periods, epochs

• Law of Supersposition

• Geologic Time Scale

• Relative Age

• Fossil Record

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The study of rock layers and the sequence of events they reflect

• Statigraphy

• Flora

• Fauna

• Law of Superposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4