092024 Vocabulary Practice

uniformitarianism

• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom
• most rock-forming materials are deposited in horizontal layers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

absolute age

• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom
• most rock-forming materials are deposited in horizontal layers

relative age

• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom
• most rock-forming materials are deposited in horizontal layers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

superposition

• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• most rock-forming materials are deposited in horizontal layers

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

original horizontality

• most rock-forming materials are deposited in horizontal layers
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

lateral continuity

• sediments are deposited in large, continuous sheets in all lateral directions
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

inclusion

• a piece of an older rock that become a part of a new rock
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

cross-cutting relationships

• one geologic feature cuts across another feature, the feature that it cuts across is older
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

fossil

• the preserved remains or evidence of past living organisms
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

mass extinctions

• the extinction of many species on Earth within a short period of time
• geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occured in the past
• the numerical age, in years, of a rock or object
• the age of rocks and geologic features compared with other nearby rocks and features
• in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rock are on the bottom

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1