Vocabulary: Are They Among Us? (L1)

A subdivision of a geologic eon and is the second-longest period of geologic time.

• era

• epoch

• period

• age

Contains all known fossils in Earth's history and is arranged in chronological order.

• fossil record

• geological survey

• mineral deposit

• rock formation

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What is it called when a lot of different living things die out quickly?

• mass extinction

• evolution

• speciation

• adaptation

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What is the study of fossilized animals and plants called?

• Paleontology

• Geology

• Archaeology

• Biology

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The geologic age of a fossil defined by other rocks or fossils.

• relative age

• absolute age

• fossil record

• geologic time

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What is the term for the gradual change in living things over many generations due to the changes of inherited traits?

• evolution

• revolution

• mutation

• adaptation

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__________ is an organism preserved (kept) in rock that is common to a particular time or environment and used to help identify geologic periods.

• index fossil

• sedimentary rock

• igneous rock

• metamorphic rock

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A scientist who studies the fossils of ancient animals and plants.

• paleontologist

• geologist

• biologist

• archaeologist

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The method used to determine how old a fossil or rock is by measuring how radioactive elements inside it have changed over time.

• radiometric dating

• carbon dating

• fossilization

• stratigraphy

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A method to find out how old a rock layer is by looking at the ages of the layers above and below it.

• relative dating

• absolute dating

• radiometric dating

• carbon dating

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