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Law of superstition goes with p

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Relative age

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Radioactive dating goes with

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Absolute age

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What part I organisms become fossils

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Hard

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Molds and cast can preserve

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Fine details

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Older rocks have fossils of Organisms

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Simpler

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Fossils can help figure out the blank of an area

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Climate

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A fault is blank them the rock it fell through

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Younger

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To determine relative age if a rock they find the relative age of the blank layer cut by the fault

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Youngest

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Index fossils tell the blank of the rock layers in which they occur

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Relative age

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Motion along faults. An change how rock layers blank

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Line up

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Blank cause unconformitys

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Erosion

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When organisms die what is released

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Carbon 14

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Most rocks don’t contain blank

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Oxygen

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Earth formed from blank blank and blank left over from the sun

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Ice dust rock

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Few fossils survived what time

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Precbrian (88 percent of earths history)

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Blank blank and blank have reshaped earths surface

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Weathering erosion and plant tectonics

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4.6 billion years ago earth had little blank

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Oxygen

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The first use of oxygen came from the first organisms that could use energy from blank

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Sunlight

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Pangaea climate was

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Hot and dry

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Glaciers and ice sheets advanced many times causing Blank

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Ice ages