chapter 8 vocabulary review quiz today!!!. the remains or physical evidence of an organism preserved...
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CHAPTER 8 VOCABULARY REVIEW
QUIZ TODAY!!!
The remains or physical evidence of an organism preserved by geological
processes
FOSSIL
WORD DESCRIBING A SPECIES THAT DIES OUT
EXTINCT
THE STANDARD METHOD OF DIVIDING EARTH’S LONG
HISTORY INTO PARTS
GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
ANY method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than others.
RELATIVE DATING
FOR EXAMPLE:
A TRILOBITE IS OLDER THAN A TRICEROTOPS!
ANY method of measuring the age of an object event in years, such as using the atomic half-life.
ABSOLUTE DATINGDecember 14th, 1925,
February 1st, 1984
CARBON DATING
ATOMIC HALF-LIFE DATING
HOMONID that lived about 230,000
AUSTRALOPITHECINE
SCIENTISTS WHO USE FOSSILS TO STUDY THE HISTORY OF LIFE
BEFORE HUMANS
palentologist
A NEW TYPE OF PROTHARYOTIC ORGANISM THAT APPEARED ABOUT 3 BILLION YEARS AGO
CYANOBACTERIA
THE THEORY THAT EXPLAINS HOW LARGE PIECES OF THE EARTH’S CRUST MOVE AND CHANGE SHAPES
PLATE TECTONICS
THE ERA CALLED THE “AGE OF REPTILES”
MESOZOIC ERA
THE ERA FOLLOWING THE MESOZOIC; IT MEANS “RECENT LIFE”
CENOZOIC ERA
• THE PERIOD FROM THE FORMATION OF THE EARTH TO 524 MILLIONS YEARS AGO
PRECAMBRIAN TIME
THE REA FOLLOWING PRECAMBRIAN TIME; IT MEANS “ANCIENT LIFE.”
PALEOZOIC ERA
AN EVENT THAT MAY BE CAUSED BY EXTREME CHANGES IN CLIMATE
MASS EXTINCTION
• WHAT CONTINENTS AND OCEANS RIDE ON TOP OF
TECTONIC PLATES
TODAY IN SCIENCE1. YOU WILL NEED YOUR OWN SHEET OF PAPER
2. PLEASE NUMBER IT 1-24
3. MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON YOUR ANSWER DOCUMENT!
4. HAND YOUR TEST INTO THE BLUE BIN, PUT YOUR ANSWER SHEET INTO THE PURPLE BIN AND PICK UP AN ARTICLE FROM THE CLEAR BIN.
5. AFTER THE QUIZ, COMPLETE CHAPTER 7 REVIEW (FROM THE TEXTBOOK) Pgs. 186-187 # 1-23