Earth Science 1

What is the name of the hollow space when an organism decays inside of a rock?

In a ______ boundary, plates move together.

Permanent bending of the Earth’s crust is known as

What is the longest part of Earth’s history?

What is the current period?

In the image below, the hanging wall is on the 

The most common carbonized fossils are those of

Which is the era of ancient life?

The supercontinent that formed in the middle of the Permian period was

The type of fault where compression causes the hanging wall to move up relative tothe footwall 

What is the name of the process of turning bone into stone?

What is our current epoch?

Superposition helps determine

Forces causing rocks to move in two opposite horizontal directions is

I feel 

What happens to insects when they get caught in amber?

A special type of reverse fault is one that is nearly horizontal rather thanvertical

What period ofgeologic time ended with the largest extinction event in Earth history?

Changes in shape, volume, and size due to stress is

An undeformed sedimentary layer is _________ than the layer above it

The composition of a petrified fossil is 

Convection currents cause

A type of boundary where plates slide past each other

I wish to go through types of stress, folds, and faults

Which of the following is NOT a permanent change to the Earth’s crust:

A record of the life forms and geological events in Earth’s history is known asthe 

End of this period was believed to be caused by a comet or asteroid colliding withEarth

An example of where an organism could be preserved is

The image below shows:

The Jurassic time period is during which era?

The location where ocean crest sinks and plunges under another plate is called a_______ zone.

Cambrian time is known as the ‘Age of the _________’

What is the shortest division of time in the geologic time scale?

What is the longest division of time in the geologic time scale?

Changes made to rocks where they are thinner in the middle than at the ends is

Which is an example of a trace fossil?

What is the current era?

Bending, breaking, and tilting of the Earth’s crust is

The_______________ was an era dominated by the dinosaurs.

What is at the top of the geologic time scale?

The scientist most responsible for continental drift theories was

A copy of the shape of an organism is known as

The explosion of life began with the 

Which of the following is NOT a type of stress?

Geologists estimate our Earth to have begun about _____ years ago