For those who were ABSENT today only, Monday, May 21, 2018 from their Core 2 or Core 4, use your reference online book, pages 60-69, and do the following:
Answer the following questions in complete sentences & TURN IN (PP.60-69).
- Contrast uniformitarianism with catastrophism.
- Explain what Hutton noticed about the gradual geologic change.
- List three areas of specialty in the study of paleontology.
- Using your imagination, diagram three different rock sequences and place them in a geologic column (see picture on page 65 as an example).
- How is superposition related to relative dating?
- Identify and explain one event that disturb rock layers and one physical feature that cuts across rock layers over time.
- Make a T-Chart: Identify the three types of unconformities and explain each.
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Create a Frayer model [definition, characteristics, example (can be a picture), and nonexample] on each of the following terms in your notebook:
uniformitarianism; catastrophism; paleontology; relative dating; superposition; geologic column; & unconformity