Here is the list of vocabulary terms if you did not finish in class:
James Hutton
Charles Lyell
Paleobotanist
Paleontology
Uniformitarianism
Catastrophism
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Invertebrate Paleontologist
*Gradualism
*Punctuated Equilibrium
Gradualism: The hypothesis that evolution proceeds mainly by the accumulation of gradual changes over time.
Punctuated Equilibrium: The hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation (the formation of new and distinct species in the course of evolution) between long periods of little or no change.
*Source: Google search engine