Chapter 5 Study Guide-Regular Science
This is a study guide for chapter 5 The Fossil Record.
- What is uniformitarianism?
- Who came up with uniformitarianism?
- What is catastrophism?
- Who came up with catastrophism?
- Which theory is used today?
- What is relative dating?
- How do you use relative dating with fossils in a rock layer (strata)?
- What is absolute dating?
- What is a half life?
- What are the half lives of Uranium 238 and Carbon 14?
- How much carbon 14 is left from a 500 gram sample after 3 half lives?
- What is paleontology?
- How do organisms get preserved (turned into fossils)?
- What is amber?
- What is petrification?
- What is permineralization?
- What is replacement?
- What are trace fossils?
- Give three examples of trace fossils.
- What is the difference between a mold and a cast?
- How does the fossil record help interpret the past?
- What are index fossils?
- What are two examples of index fossils?
- What is the geologic time scale?
- How do rocks and fossils relate to geologic time?
- What is an eon?
- Name the 4 eons and their date range.
- What is an era?
- Name the 3 eras and their date range.
- What is a period?
- Name the periods and their date range
- What is an epoch?
- Which epoch do we live in?
- What is extinction?
- What the ‘common names’ of the three eras?
- What ended the different eras(be specific)?
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