Analyzing Rock and Fossil Records

According to this Principle, in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom.

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Lateral Continuity

• Cross-cutting Relationships

• Uniformitarianism

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Rocks and fossils preserve many examples of these when many species on Earth died or became extinct within a relatively short time.

• mass extinction

• mass wasting

• mass preservation

• invasive species

• meteor impacts

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

These Principles include Superposition, Original Horizontality, Lateral Continuity, Cross-Cutting Relationships, and Inclusion.

• Steno's Principles of Relative-Age Dating

• Hutton's Principle of Uniformitarianism

• Saltzer's Principles of Classroom Management

• Archimede's Principles of Buoyancy

• Bernouli's Principles of Buoyancy

He was a Scottish naturalist and farmer who came up with the Principle of Uniformitarianism. He is considered the person who developed the idea of geologic time and proposed that the Earth was much older than people thought at the time.

• James Hutton

• Nicolaus Steno

• James Newton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Nicolaus Tesla

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

According to this Principle, geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that have occurred in the past.

• Uniformitarianism

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Lateral Continuity

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

This is the actual age of something.

• absolute age

• relative age

• superposition

• uniform

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This is the age of rocks and geologic features as compared with other rocks and geologic features nearby.

• relative age

• absolute age

• superposition

• cross-cutting relationships

• inclusions

This man developed a set of principles to compare the ages of rocks.

• Nicolaus Steno

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• James Hutton

• James Newton

• Nicolaus Tesla

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

According to this Principle, sediments are deposited in large, flat sheets.

• Original Horizontality

• Superposition

• Lateral Continuity

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Inclusion

According to this Principle, if one geologic feature cuts across another feature, the feature that it cuts across is older.

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Lateral Continuity

• Inclusion