Unit 4 Ohio Science Fusion Vocab

The Law of Crosscutting Relationships

• A fault or intrusion is YOUNGER than rock it cuts through.
• A fault or intrusion is OLDER than rock it cuts through.
• Never cut across the street. Always use the cross walk.

Determining the actual age of an event or object in years.

• Absolute Dating
• Relative Dating
• Online Dating
• Speed Dating

The principle that states that all geologic change occurs suddenly.

• Catastrophism
• Uniformitarianism
• Fossil Record
• Geologic Processes

The weather conditions in an area over a long period of time.

• Climate
• Temperature
• Atmosphere
• Uniformitarianism

The process by which material is laid down.

• Deposition
• Erosion
• Weathering
• Petrification

A break or crack in Earth's crust where rocks can move.

• Fault
• Folding
• Tilting
• Unconformity

The bending of rocks that can happen when rock layers are squeezed together.

• Folding
• Tilting
• Unconformity
• Intrusion

The history of life in the geologic past as indicated by traces or remains of living things.

• Fossil Record
• Facebook
• Uniformitarianism
• Geologic Processes

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

• Fossils
• Uniformitarianism
• Climate
• Sedimentary Rock

An ordered arrangement of rock layers that is based on the relative ages of the rocks.

• Geologic Column
• Unconformity
• Intrusion
• Fault