ESS Unit 3: Plate Tectonics and Geo Time

Layers of sediment were originally deposited last and parallel initially. If you find them at an angle, they have been moved

• Law of Uniformitarianism

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Law of Original Horizontality

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Igneous rocks or faults that cut into other rocks are the youngest

• Law of Uniformitarianism

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Cross-cutting Relationships

• Law of Original Horizontality

The way things occurred in the past are likely the same way things occur today.

• Law of Uniformitarianism

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Cross-cutting Relationships

• Law of Original Horizontality

The youngest rock layer of rock is on the top. The oldest layer of rock is on the bottom.

• Law of Uniformitarianism

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Cross-cutting Relationships

• Law of Original Horizontality

The ancient supercontinent that formed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic

• Nurasia

• Earth Mother

• Pangaea

• Super America

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Any traces of past life is called

• Fossil

• Unconformity

• Index

• Picture

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The type of fossil typical of a certain time and by that time's rocks are dated is called

• Imprint fossil

• Mold

• Index fossil

• Trace fossil

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A crack in the Earth's crust along which rocks shift their positions is

• fault

• facies

• intrusion

• index

When two continental plates converge. What feature is formed?

• Rift valleys

• Volcanoes

• Mountains

• Oceanic Trench

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When a continental plate and oceanic plate converge. What two likely features are found?

• Volcanoes and Oceanic Trench

• Volcanoes and Folded Mountains

• Rift Valleys and Oceanic Trench

• Rift Valleys and Folded Mountains

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