Geologic Time Vocabulary Quiz
Using the word bank below, match the words with their correct definitions. In order to be graded correctly,
you must spell the words correctly
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Word Bank (copy and paste)
Anomalies, Correlation, Index Fossils, Isotopes, Outcrop, Outgassing, Principle of Superposition, Principle of Uniformitarianism, Unconformity
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Something out of the ordinary. Unlikely to be repeated.
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Those things that occurred in the past are also occurring today.
3
A different form of an element differing only in mass.
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Bedrock that can be seen on the Earth’s surface.
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Oldest layers on the bottom.
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Matching up rock outcrops based on similar characteristics.
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A buried erosional surface.
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Best way to correlate rock layers.
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The escaping of water vapor from the Earth’s crust.
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