8 th Grade Science Mr. Carmichael ROCKS NOT! He is not Gneiss. Chapter 6, 8, 9 Review!

Geological Time More Vocab Fossils Minerals Rock Vocab

Categories The Trace or remains of an ancient organism. Vocab 100 Points

Categories Vocab 100 Points What is a Fossil?

Categories Vocab 200 Points The Time required for Half of a radioactive isotope to decay.

Categories What is half-life? Vocab 200 Points

Categories Vocab 300 Points Rock that forms from heat and pressure.

Categories Vocab 300 Points What is a Metamorphic rock?

Categories Rock that forms when magma cools and solidifies. Vocab 400 Points

Categories What is an igneous rock? Vocab 400 Points

Categories The Era called the “age of reptiles”. Vocab 500 Points

Categories What is the Mesozoic Era Vocab 500 Points

Categories Volcanic out gassing and meteors gave this to the early Earth. Minerals Rock 100 Points

Categories Minerals Rock 100 Points What is fresh water?

Categories Minerals Rock 200 Points The ratio of a mineral’s mass to its volume. Heart with a line through it.

Categories What is density? Minerals Rock 200 Points

Categories Minerals Rock 300 Points The method of using radioactive decay to measure the absolute age of a rock.

Categories Minerals Rock 300 Points What is Radiometric Dating?

Categories The 3 types of rocks. Minerals Rock 400 Points

Categories What are Sedimentary, Igneous, and Metamorphic? BONUS: How are each formed? Minerals Rock 400 Points

Categories This type of Metamorphism occurs when heat from nearby magma causes changes in the surrounding rocks. Minerals Rock 500 Points

Categories What is contact metamorphism? Minerals Rock 500 Points

Categories In the Geologic column, the oldest rocks are here. Fossils 100 Points

Categories Fossils 100 Points Where is at the bottom?

Categories Fossils 200 Points Fossils are usually found in these types of rocks.

Categories What are sedimentary rocks? Fossils 200 Points

Categories Fossils 300 Points Ancient Animal Dung that is a fossil.

Categories Fossils 300 Points What is a Coprolite?

Categories What usually happens to dead plants and animals. Fossils 400 Points

Categories What is they are eaten or decomposed by bacteria (not turned into a fossil)? Fossils 400 Points

Categories Describe the four types of fossils? Fossils 500 Points

Categories ESSAY QUESTION Imprints: surface features of organism Molds and casts: replica of organism Coprolites: Ancient animal dung Gastroliths: stones in ancient animal stomachs to digest food. Fossils 500 Points

Categories Rock that forms from compaction and cementation of sediments. More Vocab 100 Points

Categories More Vocab 100 Points What is a sedimentary rock?

Categories More Vocab 200 Points The scientific study of fossils.

Categories What is Paleontology? More Vocab 200 Points

Categories More Vocab 300 Points The same element that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons. Why certain same elements weigh different amounts. Also used for radiometric and carbon dating.

Categories More Vocab 300 Points What are isotopes?

Categories The interval of time in the geologic time scale from Earth’s formation. The oldest era. More Vocab 400 Points

Categories What is Precambrian Time? More Vocab 400 Points

Categories Clastic, chemical, and organic are all types of this rock. More Vocab 500 Points

Categories What is a Sedimentary rock? More Vocab 500 Points

Categories Scientists can use index fossils to estimate this of a rock. Geological Time 100 Points

Categories Geological Time 100 Points What is the absolute age through carbon dating? The exact age in number years.

Categories Geological Time 200 Points This time was the longest time in the geologic time scale.

Categories What is the Precambrian time? 88% of the history of Earth. Geological Time 200 Points

Categories Geological Time 300 Points The gradual development of new organisms from preexisting organisms. You could see it happen in your geologic time scale projects.

Categories Geological Time 300 Points What is evolution?

Categories The Era called the “age of mammals” Geological Time 400 Points

Categories What is the Cenozoic era? We are currently living in the: Holocene Epoch of the Quaternary Period in the Cenozoic Era. Geological Time 400 Points

Categories Scientists can assume this about rock layers that match similar layers in the geologic column. Geological Time 500 Points

Categories What is they formed at about the same time? Geological Time 500 Points

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Categories The Daily Double

Categories Final Jeopardy

Categories According to the Impact Hypothesis, How did the dinosaurs become extinct. Final Jeopardy

Categories A giant meteorite crashed into Earth causing dust to block out the sun killing off some plants. Final Jeopardy