Earth History Vocab

Means "Ancient Life"; The era after the Pre-Cambrian Era, known for the great expansion of life, especially trilobites, insects, fish and amphibians.

• Paleozoic

• Cenozoic

• Pre-Cambrian

• Mesozoic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Rocks formed from many types of rocks that are under extreme heat and pressure, changing the rocks into this new type of rock.

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Igneous Rock

• Index Fossil

A record of the life forms and geological events in Earth's history.

• Absolute Dating

• Half-Life

• Geological Time Scale

• Relative Dating

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The time it takes for one half of a sample of radioactive sample to decay.

• Geological Time Scale

• Half-life

• Relative Dating

• Radiometric Dating

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Rock formed by the cooling and solidifying of molten materials.

• Pangaea

• Sedimentary Rock

• Metamorphic Rock

• Igneous Rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

A widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, used especially in determining the age of related formations.

• Metamorphic Rock

• Igneous Rock

• Index Fossil

• Pangaea

The science of determining the order of past events by comparison, without necessarily determining the actual age.

• Absolute Dating

• Radiometric Dating

• Half-life

• Relative Dating

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The movement of continents resulting from the motion of earth's crustal plates

• Seafloor Spreading

• Continental Drift

• Stratigraphy

• Geology

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Rock formed from the deposit of sand, dirt and organic matter that compress and harden over time and very often contain fossils.

• Sedimentary Rock

• Index Fossil

• Metamorphic Rock

• Igneous Rock

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

To determine the actual age of an object (rock).

• Radiometric Dating

• Absolute Dating

• Relative Dating

• Geological Time Scale