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4. The traces or remains of organisms that lived long ago.

5. What is a fossil?

6. Fossilized animal tracks, burrows or dung.

7. What are trace fossils?

8. Describes the weather conditions in the area over a long period of time.

9. What is climate?

10. The supercontinent that contained all of our current land masses together in one landform.

11. What is Pangaea?

12. This is made of all the fossils that have been discovered & shows part of the history of life on Earth.

13. What is the fossil record?

14. The positive atomic particle located in the nucleus.

15. What is
The proton?

16. The number of protons in the nucleus in an atom.

17. What is the atomic number?

18. How to determine the actual age of an event or object in years.

19. What is absolute dating?

20. The process that breaks down radioactive isotopes.

21. What is radioactive decay?

22. How scientists find the absolute age of a sample by looking at the relative percentages of radioactive parent and daughter isotopes.

23. What is radiometric dating?

24. The negatively charged particle in an atom.

25. What is an electron?

26. The number of protons and neutrons in an atom.

27. The number of protons and neutrons in an atom.

28. What is the mass number?

29. A change that affects the nucleus of an atom..

30. What is a nuclear reaction?

31. The time needed for half of a sample of a radioactive element to undergo radioactive decay and form daughter isotopes.

32. What is Half-Life?

33. The types of stable isotopes left over after radioactive isotopes decay.

34. What are daughter isotopes?

35. The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth.

36. What is geology?

37. The idea that the same gradual geologic processes that shape Earth today have been at work throughout Earth’s history.

38. What is uniformitarianism?

39. The largest unit of geologic time.

40. What is an eon?

41. The time that made up almost 90 percent of Earth’s history.

42. What is Precambrian?

43. The smallest unit of geologic time.

44. What is an epoch?

45. This divides Earth’s geologic history into intervals of time defined by major events or changes on Earth.

46. What is the geologic time scale?

47. The principle that states that all geologic change occurs suddenly.

48. What is catastrophism?

49. The type of rock fossils are formed in.

50. What is sedimentary rock?

51. Fossils that are used to estimate the absolute age of the rock layers in which they are found.

52. What are index fossils?

53. The cylinders taken from places like Antarctica to gauge the history of the precipitation and concentration of gases in the atmosphere.

54. What are ice cores?

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56. The half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years.
How much of a 100 g sample will be left over after 17,190 years?

57. What is 12.5 g?