1. Examining the Fossil Record

2. History! You experience the NOW You remember your early life
Television (hundred years)
Written accounts (thousands of years)
Coring (thousands of years)
Radiometric Dating (billions of years)

3. Fossils (What)
Preserved remains or traces of an organism

4. Geologic Strata (Where)
Layers of sedimentary rock deposited over time

5. Fossil Record (When) Absolute(ish) Dating Relative Dating
Radiometric dating
Relative Dating
Law of superposition

6. Fossil Rock Anthem: I Am A Paleontologist:
I Am A Paleontologist: