fossil record vocabulary

Question 1

uniformitarianism

Answer 1

the theory that changes n the earth’s crust during geological history have resulted from the action of continuous and uniform processes

Question 2

catastrphism

Answer 2

the theory that changes in the earth’s crust during geological history have resulted chiefly from sudden violent and unusual events

Question 3

paleontology

Answer 3

the branch of science concerned with fossil animals and plants

Question 4

relative dating

Answer 4

relative dating is the science of determining the relative order of past events without necessarily determining their absolute age in geology rock or superficial deposits fossils and lithologies can be used to correlate one stratigraphic column with another

Question 5

absolute dating

Answer 5

absolute dating is the process of determining an age on a specified chrology in archaeology and geology