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WorksheetsFossil Vocabulary
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
A fossil can be best described as?
The remains or traces of once living organisms on earth.
A method of finding the absolute age of something once living
When all individuals but one of a certain species dies off.
The method of finding the absolute age of a rock by comparing the amounts of unstable and stable particles in the rock sample.
fossil record
index fossil
radiometric dating
absolute age
The collection of all known fossils and their placement in order from oldest to most recent is known as....
radiometric dating
index fossil
fossil record
earth's age in history
Extinction can be best described as....
geologic time scale
is used to estimate the absolute time/era of an organism
when ALL individuals of a specific/certain species dies out.
This image represents..
extinction
fossils
fossil record
radiometric dating
The image is an example of?
fossil
fossil record
geologic time scale
radiometric dating
Fossil Record
Extinction
Fossil
Radiometric Dating
This is an example of a fossil...True or False
True
False
