In what type of rocks would geologists find fossils?
Sedimentary
What scientists is credited with uniformitarianism?
James Hutton
What does the law of superposition state?
Rock layer is always older than the one above it.
What is an unconformity?
Tilting or folding, erosion, then starts again.
Fossil created by a dinosaur footprint is an example of a?
Trace fossil
The task of using fossils to match rocks of similar ages in different locations?
Correlation
What were the major gasses in precambrian atmosphere?
Water Vapor, Nitrogen, Oxygen
What important event in animal evolution marks the beginning of the Cambrian era?
Appearance of hard parts
What event may have triggered the great Paleozoic extinction?
Redistribution of land and climate change
Age of fishes, which time period?
Devonian
What’s the most common pre-cambrian fossil?
Stromatolites, proof of algae
Why did amphibians diversify so quickly during the late paleozoic?
Because there was no competition
What was the first true terrestrial animal?
Reptiles
What title best describes the current age?
Age of mammals
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