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Unit 6 vocab

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Fossil   A remain, imprint, or trace of prehistoric life  
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Index Fossil   Remains of once-living things from millions of years ago  
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Permineralized Remains   Fossils filled with minerals from groundwater  
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Molds and Casts   A type of body fossil  
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Original Remains   Still-existing fossils of prehistoric animals  
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Trace Fossils   Fossil consisting of imprint or track of an organism  
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Relative Age   Age of something compared with other things  
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Superposition   Order of sedimentary strata  
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Horizontality   The layers in the soil  
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Absolute Age   Age in years of a rock or other object  
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Half-life   The time taken for half the atoms in an isotope to decay  
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Isotopes   Amounts of the same elements with different numbers of neutrons  
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Radioactive Decay   Process where some isotopes break into smaller isotopes  
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Geological Time   The division in Earth's history  
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Eon   The longest subdivision in geological time  
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Era   Subdivided into periods  
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Period   Characterized by types of life that existed worldwide  
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Epoch   Characterized by differences in life-forms  
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Pangaea   The world when dinosaurs roamed the Earth  
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Trilobite   Organism with 3-lobed exoskeleton  
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Precambrian   Longest part of Earth's history  
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Mesozoic Era   The time of the dinosaurs  
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Cenozoic Era   The time of the first humans  
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