1. CHAPTER 8 VOCABULARY REVIEW
QUIZ TODAY!!!

4. The remains or physical evidence of an organism preserved by geological processes

5. FOSSIL

6. WORD DESCRIBING A SPECIES THAT DIES OUT

7. EXTINCT

8. THE STANDARD METHOD OF DIVIDING EARTH’S LONG HISTORY INTO PARTS

9. GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE

10. ANY method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than others.

11. RELATIVE DATING
FOR EXAMPLE: A TRILOBITE IS OLDER THAN A TRICEROTOPS!

12. ANY method of measuring the age of an object event in years, such as using the atomic half-life.

13. ABSOLUTE DATING
December 14th, 1925, February 1st, 1984 CARBON DATING ATOMIC HALF-LIFE DATING

14. HOMONID that lived about 230,000

15. AUSTRALOPITHECINE

16. SCIENTISTS WHO USE FOSSILS TO STUDY THE HISTORY OF LIFE BEFORE HUMANS

17. palentologist

18. A NEW TYPE OF PROTHARYOTIC ORGANISM THAT APPEARED ABOUT 3 BILLION YEARS AGO

19. CYANOBACTERIA

20. THE THEORY THAT EXPLAINS HOW LARGE PIECES OF THE EARTH’S CRUST MOVE AND CHANGE SHAPES

21. PLATE TECTONICS

22. THE ERA CALLED THE “AGE OF REPTILES”

23. MESOZOIC ERA

24. THE ERA FOLLOWING THE MESOZOIC; IT MEANS “RECENT LIFE”

25. CENOZOIC ERA

26. THE PERIOD FROM THE FORMATION OF THE EARTH TO 524 MILLIONS YEARS AGO

27. PRECAMBRIAN TIME

28. THE REA FOLLOWING PRECAMBRIAN TIME; IT MEANS “ANCIENT LIFE.”

29. PALEOZOIC ERA

30. AN EVENT THAT MAY BE CAUSED BY EXTREME CHANGES IN CLIMATE

31. MASS EXTINCTION

32. WHAT CONTINENTS AND OCEANS RIDE ON TOP OF

33. TECTONIC PLATES

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