5E Lesson Plan-Meter stick Geologic Time Lab Crossword

a Scottish geologist who popularised the revolutionary work of James Hutton.
originated the theory of uniformitarianism—a fundamental principle of geology—that explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time.
the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes.
the theory that changes in the earth's crust during geological history have resulted chiefly from sudden violent and unusual events.
a system of chronological dating that relates geological strata (stratigraphy) to time.
a major division of geological time, subdivided into eras.
a major division of time that is a subdivision of an eon and is itself subdivided into periods.
a division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages, corresponding to a series in chronostratigraphy.
fossil formed when an animal, plant, or other organism dies and is covered by sediment, its flesh decays and bones deteriorate due to chemical reactions, and a cavity remains below the ground surface.
A fossil formed when an animal, plant, or other organism dies, its flesh decays and bones deteriorate due to chemical reactions; minerals gradually enter into the cavity, resulting in a cast, which is in the general form of the original organism.
A fossil consisting of an imprint of or a mark left by an organism, as opposed to physical remains.
a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found.
current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and extending from 66 million years ago to the present day
an interval of geological time from about 252 to 66 million years ago.
the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon. It is the longest of the Phanerozoic eras, lasting from 541 to 251.902 million years ago
e earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon.
formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of mineral or organic particles on the floor of oceans or other bodies of water at the Earth's surface.