Science Vocabulary Pre-test Sem 1

Billions of years since the planet Earth began developing

• Geological time

• Science time

• Earth time

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Each layer of rock is older than the one above it. Young rock is on top of older rock. What is this called.

• Law of geological time.

• Law of Superposition

• Law of Rock layers

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Animal or plant that is preserved in the rock record of Earth, it acts as a bookmark and tells you a specific time or timeframe this species was around.

• fossil record

• Standard fossil

• index fossil

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How old somethin truly is. Example: Harry Styles is 28 years old.

• Earth age

• absolute age

• standard age

Approximate age determination of rocks, fossils or minerals made by comparing younger and older things surrounding it.

• Fossil Age

• Absolute Age

• Relative Age

The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in rock.

• fossil

• index fossil

• premier fossil

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Sedimentary rock layer bound by two stratification planes.

• rock layers

• Rock strata

• plate tectonics

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The gradual movement of the continents across the Earth's surface through geological time.

• Continental drift

• Pangea

• plate tectonics

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The theory explaining how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements.

• rock strata

• Plate tectonics

• continental drift

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The curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, a planet or a moon.

• orbit

• revolution

• solar track

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