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Worksheetsscience- Vocabulary
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
True or False Fossil is The remains of an animal.
True
False
Relative Dating is...
The process of determining an age on a specified time scale in archaeology and geology.
The science of determining the order of past events, determining the age of an object in comparison to another.
Ha! non of these!
The death of all of a species of animal or plant and it's remaining living members.
True or False Extinction is the process of an animal coming to life.
True
False
Law of Unifromitarianism is...
A geological theory that states that changes in the earth's crust through out history have resulted from the action of uniform, continuous processes.
The youngest rock is always on top and the oldest rock is always on the bottom so the relative ages can be arranged by the depth of the rocks.
I don't know.
Law of Superposition is...
The youngest rock is always on top and the oldest rock is always on the bottom so the relative ages can be arranged by the depth of the rocks.
The process of determining an age on a specified time scale in archaeology and geology.
True or False Absolute Dating is The process of determining an age on a specified time scale in archaeology and geology.
True
False
What is relative age mean?
Tells the exact age of an object.
The determination of the order rocks go in.
Does not tell the exact age of an object.
What is an index Fossil?
a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found
Not so fast teacher you can't trick me non!
process of determining an age on a specified chronology in archaeology and geology.
which is NOT a body fossil?
Bone
teeth
shell
skin
True or False a body fossil is any part of the actual animal or plant?
True
False
true or false a trace fossils does NOT give us proof of animal life from the past?
False
True
What is Extinction?
the death of a animal and plant species that no longer living.
the death of just plants.
the death of just animals.
extinction is extinction.
Oldest fossil goes in the...
Top
Bottom
Both
The Youngest fossil goes on the...
Bottom
Both
Top
What is a paleontologist?
Someone who studies an organism.
Someone who makes an organism.
Someone who studies fossils
non of these.
Someone who is a scientist who studies the history of life on Earth through the fossil record.
what is something you can NOT learn from a fossil?
all of these.
where it lived.
what species it is.
What it eats.
The color.
