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Question Answer A-100 ANSWER: This type of fossil is useful when the known organism only lived for a short, well-defined time period QUESTION: What is an index fossil?

Question Answer A-200 ANSWER: This type of fossil is the cavity that is left from a buried plat or animal QUESTION: What is a mold?

Question Answer A-300 ANSWER: This type of trace fossil would tell us what type of diet an organism had. QUESTION: What is a coprolite?

Question Answer A-400 ANSWER: This fossil forming process would preserve organisms because water is not present and bacteria cannot eat away at the organism QUESTION: What is mummification?

Question Answer A-500 ANSWER: This process has minerals filling in pore spaces of an organism’s dead tissues QUESTION: What is permineralization?

Question Answer ANSWER: This is the largest division of geologic time QUESTION: What is an eon? B-100

Question Answer B-200 ANSWER: This is the smallest division of geologic time QUESTION: What is an epoch?

Question Answer B-300 ANSWER: Eons are broken up into smaller periods of time known as these QUESTION: What is an era?

Question Answer B-400 ANSWER: Eras are broken up into smaller divisions of time known as these QUESTION: What are periods?

Question Answer B-500 ANSWER: This is the most recent era in the geologic time scale QUESTION: What is the Cenozoic?

Question Answer C-100 ANSWER: The process of stable isotopes being broken down and changing into other elements QUESTION: What is radioactive decay?

Question Answer C-200 ANSWER: The form of rock or fossil “dating” does not give an exact age QUESTION: What is relative dating?

Question Answer C-300 ANSWER: This is the number of half- lives a radioactive sample would have gone through if 1/8 of the original material is still present QUESTION: What is 3?

Question Answer C-400 ANSWER: This would be the number of half-lives a sample would have gone through if ¼ of the original material is present QUESTION: What is 2?

Question Answer C-500 ANSWER: The type of rock or fossil “dating” that gives a more accurate age is known as this QUESTION: What is Absolute dating?

Question Answer D-100 ANSWER: The principle that tells us younger rocks are on top of older rocks is this QUESTION: What is superposition?

Question Answer D-200 ANSWER: The type of disturbance caused by magma cutting through layers of rock and cooling QUESTION: What is an intrusion?

Question Answer D-300 ANSWER: The type of rock disturbance that occurs when plates slip past one another and layers slide above other layers QUESTION: What is a fault?

Question Answer D-400 ANSWER: This type of geologic disturbance bends rock layers without breaking them QUESTION: What is folding?

Question Answer D-500 ANSWER: The type of rock disturbance creates a missing layer of rock in the geologic column QUESTION: What is an unconformity?

Question Answer E-100 ANSWER: The belief that sudden changes create geologic processes QUESTION: What is catastrophism?

Question Answer E-200 ANSWER: The belief that the Earth changes the same now as it did in the past QUESTION: What is uniformitarianism?

Question Answer E-300 ANSWER: This is a process where water or wind is cutting away at rock layers QUESTION: What is erosion?

Question Answer E-400 ANSWER: The process in which sediments are no longer creating rock layers for a period of time QUESTION: What is nondeposition?

Question Answer E-500 ANSWER: This Era is known as the age of reptiles QUESTION: What is the mesozoic

Question Answer FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER: This era had no known land animals QUESTION: What is the paleozoic