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Special Info 1
Rocks
Types of Fossils
More Fossils
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He was the name of the explorer who mapped out he
Grand Canyon
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Who was John Wesley Powell?
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These are always younger than the rock layers
around them.
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Extrusion, intrusion, and faults.
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These are the process responsible for making the
Grand Canyon
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Weathering , erosion, plate tectonics, converging
plates, ice, and volcanoes
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This is younger than the other layers.
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The Fault labeled Y.
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This was a high, flat, land formed west of the
Rocky Mountains
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The Colorado Plateau
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This type of rock is formed from sediments
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Sedimentary Rocks
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The rock that responds to acid by bubbling
because it has calcite in it
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What is Limestone?
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It is another name for rock layers
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What is strata?
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Denoted rough rapids on the Colorado River
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What is rough, rigid, and harder rocks?
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Rocks made from hardened lava
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What is igneous rock?
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The remains or imprints of once live organisms
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What are fossils?
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The type of fossil that is formed by minerals
absorbing into the hard parts of the organism and
turning it into rock
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What are petrified fossils?
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Organisms that have been covered by tree resin
and the resin hardens overtime fossilizing them.
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What are fossils in amber?
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Fossils that are widely distributed and occurred
for only short periods of time.
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What are index fossils?
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Hollow impression in sediment that is the shape
of an organism
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What are molds?
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Copy or replica of the shape of an organism
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What are casts?
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Fossils that are evidence that the organism was
there, but not a part of the organism.
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What are Trace Fossils?
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These include bone, shells, teeth, and woody
stems.
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What are the parts of the organism that form
fossils?
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The 3 main things fossils tell scientists
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• What kind of organisms lived I the past.
• How the organisms have changed.
• How the environment has changed

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A foot print, animal burrows, and caprolites
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What are examples of Trace Fossils?
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This is the age of rocks when comparing rock
layers
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What is relative age?
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States that rock layers on the bottom are always
older that layers above them.
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What is the Law of Superposition?
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The exact number of years since the rock has been
formed.
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What is absolute age?
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Why index fossil are so important to us.
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They tell the relative age of rock layers
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Characteristics of an index fossil.
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• What are
• Only occurred I one time period.
• Widely distributed?

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This is what geologists use to study how old
something is and how long ago something occurred.
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What is the Geologic Time Scale?