Earth Science 1

Superposition helps determine

What is at the top of the geologic time scale?

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

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

The scientist most responsible for continental drift theories was

I feel 

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

Forces causing rocks to move in two opposite horizontal directions is

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

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

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

In a ______ boundary, plates move together.

The explosion of life began with the 

Permanent bending of the Earth’s crust is known as

A copy of the shape of an organism is known as

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

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

Convection currents cause

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

The Jurassic time period is during which era?

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

What is the longest part of Earth’s history?

Which of the following is NOT a type of stress?

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

The_______________ was an era dominated by the dinosaurs.

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

What is the current period?

In the image below, the hanging wall is on the 

The image below shows:

What is our current epoch?

The most common carbonized fossils are those of

A type of boundary where plates slide past each other

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

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

The composition of a petrified fossil is 

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

What happens to insects when they get caught in amber?

Which is an example of a trace fossil?

Geologists estimate our Earth to have begun about _____ years ago

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

An example of where an organism could be preserved is

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

What is the current era?

Which is the era of ancient life?

An undeformed sedimentary layer is _________ than the layer above it