Earth History Vocabulary

Earth History Vocabulary

1. Bombardment: Intense comet and asteroid bombardment is thought to have peppered all the planets including earth

2. Geological Time Scale: System of chronological dating that relates geological strata to time

3. Absolute Dating: Process of determining an age on a specified chronologically In archaelogy and geology

4. Layers of Earth: Crust, mantle, core, lithosphere, asthenosphere, mesosphere, outer core, inner core.

5. Stratigraphy: Study of rock layer deposited in earth

6. Fossil Record: Refer to the total number of fossils that have been discovered

7. Relative Dating: Science of determining the relative order of past events

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