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3. 100 200 400 300 400 VocabularyErosion & Weathering Geologic Time Random 300 200 400 200 100 500 100

4. Row 1, Col 1 What is a rapid movement of large amounts of rock and soil? Landslide

5. 1,2 What is a mass of rock that slips down a slope? Slump

6. 1,3 What is the movement of sediment or soil? Erosion

7. 1,4 What are preserved remains of a once-living organism? Fossils

8. 2,1 What is the breaking down of substances? Weathering

9. 2,2 Waves dropping sand on the beach is an example of ________. (Choose from weathering, erosion, or deposition) Deposition

10. 2,3 Rain washing away soil from a hillside is an example of _______. (Choose from weathering, erosion, or deposition) Erosion

11. 2,4 Water getting into cracks and breaking apart pavement is an example of: _______. (Choose from weathering, erosion, or deposition) Weathering

12. 3,1 What are the four eras of our geologic time? Precambrian Era, Paleozoic Era, Mesozoic Era, and Cenozoic Era.

13. 3,2 What is absolute age? Absolute age is the age of the rock given since it formed.

14. 3,3 What era had the first man fossil? Cenozoic Era

15. 3,4 What era is the age of dinosaurs? Mesozoic Era

16. 4,1 What are the four steps that explain how a fossil is formed? Sediment, layers, movement, and erosion.

17. 4,2 What law explains that the oldest layer is at the bottom and the youngest layer is at the top? The Law of Superposition

18. 4,3 A mudslide flowing down a steep hill is an example of ______. (Choose from weathering, erosion, or deposition) Erosion

19. 4,4 What is the age of rock compared to the age of the rock layers? Relative Age

20. 5,1 What happens when magma that cools begins to push into bodies of rock? Intrusion

21. 5,2 What happens when lava hardens on the surface? Extrusion

22. 5,3 What era did the atmosphere form from gases? Precambrian Era

23. 5,4 List four different types of erosion. Water, groundwater, glacial, and wind.