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Fossils Word Search

Fossils Word Search
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Word Search
Description

continental drift
La Brea Tar Pits
mass extinction
index fossil
fossil fuel
petroleum
petrified
trilobite
organism
ammonite
dinosaur
sediment
mammoth
fossil
amber
coal
mold
cast

Chapter 5: Change in Nature Crossword

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Crossword
Description

Preserved remains of plants and animals.
This type of froms when a buried organism decays and leaves behind only a thin layer of carbon.
Petrified wood is an example of this type of fossil.
This type of fossil may consist of all or part of the original organism. Amber is an example.
Fossilized footprints, imprints, burrows and bite marks are all examples of this type of fossil.
Suggests that all of Earth's physical processes, such as erosion, happen at the same rate in the present as in the past.
Random changes in DNA.
The blending of Darwin's theories of natural selection with mutations and genetics
Attempts to date rocks or fossils by their location within layers of rocks.
Attempts to date rocks or fossils by measuring the amounts of stable and unstable isotopes within them.
Illustrates how accumulating mutations actually make organisms less fit for survival.
___________________ view mutations as evidence of the increasing disorder in creation as a result of the fall.
The ______________ is a copy of the original organism.

Geologic Time Word Search

Geologic Time Word Search
Type
Word Search
Description

cross-cutting relationship
principle of inclusions
original horizontality
absolute-age dating
geologic time scale
relative-age dating
radiocarbon dating
radiometric dating
radioactive decay
uniformitarianism
dendrochronology
mass extinction
superposition
unconformity
correlation
groundwater
Precambrian
half-life
granite
isotope
key bed
fossil
period
epoch
varve
eon
era

Precambrian Period Bingo Cards

Precambrian Period Bingo Cards
Type
Bingo Cards
Description

Precambrian Period
evolution
Law of Superposition
Fossil
Trace fossils
Index Fossils
Trilobites
Ammonites
Geologic Time Scale
Relative-age dating
radioactive decay
mass extinction
Eon
The age of dinosaurs
The rise of mammals
Epoch
Uniformitarianism
Original horizontality
Cross-cutting relationships
mold
cast
Tree rings
ice cores
half-life

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Geologic Time! Word Search

Geologic Time! Word Search
Type
Word Search
Description

Geologic Time Scale
Radiometric Dating
Radiocarbon Dating
Uniformitarianism
Relative Dating
Radioactivity
Index Fossil
Half Life
Fossils
Period
Epoch
Era
Eon

Geologic Time Word Search

Geologic Time Word Search
Type
Word Search
Description

Geologic Time Scale
Radiometric Dating
Radiocarbon Dating
Uniformitarianism
Relative Dating
Radioactivity
Index Fossil
Half Life
Fossils
Period
Epoch
Era
Eon

Geological TIme Word Search

Geological TIme Word Search
Type
Word Search
Description

Geological Time Scale
Radiometric Dating
Radiocarbon Dating
Relative Dating
Index Fossil
Fossils
Period
Epoch
Era
Eon

Geologic Time Crossword

Geologic Time Crossword
Type
Crossword
Description

A unit of time equal to a billion year.
A division of time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself subdivided into ages.
A major division of time that is a subdivision of an eon and it itself subdivided into periods.
The remains or traces of an organism preserved from the geologic past.
The division of earth's history into blocks of time eons, eras, periods.
The time required for one-half of the atoms of a radioactive substance to decay.
A fossil that is associated with a particular span of geologic time.
Basic unit of the geologic time scale that is a subdivision of time.
The spontaneous decay of a certain unstable atom nuclei.
Method of determining the age or date of organic matter from the relative proportions of the carbon isotopes carbon-12 and carbon-14.
A method of dating geological or archaeological specimens by determining the relative proportions of particular radioactive isotopes present in a sample.
The science of determining the relative order of past events without determining exact age.

Geologic time Word Search

Geologic time Word Search
Type
Word Search
Description

Uniformitarianism
Radioactivity
Radiometric
Radiocarbon
Relative
Fossils
Dating
Period
Scale
Epoch
Life
Time
Era
Eon

Fossil Record Word Search

Fossil Record Word Search
Type
Word Search
Description

Absolute Dating
Relative Dating
Superposition
paleontology
radiometric
sedimentary
time period
extinction
Morphology
population
speciation
diversity
evolution
Trilobite
organism
stratum
Fossil
Record
index
age
Law