Vocab 27.3 & 27.4

Question 1

is the process by which water enters Earth and becomes groundwater below the surface.

Answer 1

Infiltration

Question 2

the upper boundary of the saturated zone

Answer 2

water table

Question 3

a rock unit that can transfer water though its pore space

Answer 3

aquifer

Question 4

percentage of a materials total volume of pore space calculated by dividing total volume of the material

Answer 4

porosity

Question 5

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

Answer 5

absolute dating

Question 6

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

Answer 6

relative dating

Question 7

states that the laws of nature operate today as they have in the past

Answer 7

uniformitainism

Question 8

states that in and undisturbed sequence of sedimentary rock layers

Answer 8

principle of superposition

Question 9

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

Answer 9

unconformities

Question 10

remains or traces of organisms found in the geologic rock record

Answer 10

fossils