chapter 27.3 and 27.4

Question 1

what is the process which water enters Earth and becomes groundwater below the surface?

Answer 1

infiltration

Question 2

what is the upper boundary of the saturated zone?

Answer 2

water table

Question 3

what is it called when a rock unit that can transfer water through it’s pores spaces

Answer 3

Aquifer

Question 4

what is the percentage of the material’s total volume that is pore spaces

Answer 4

porosity

Question 5

the process of assigning an exact numerical age to an organism, an object ,or an event

Answer 5

absolute dating

Question 6

the process of placing objects or event in their proper order in time

Answer 6

relative dating

Question 7

which states that the law of nature operate today as they have in the past.

Answer 7

uniformitarianism

Question 8

state that in an undisturbed sequence of sedimentary rock layers, the youngest rock will be at the top and the oldest rock will be on the bottom

Answer 8

principle of superposition

Question 9

gaps in the rock record during which either erosion occurred or deposition was absent

Answer 9

unconformities

Question 10

the remains or traces of organisms found in the geologic rock record

Answer 10

fossils