Core 2 & 4, Reinforcement: Earth’s Story & Relative Dating

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).

  1. Contrast uniformitarianism with catastrophism.
  2. Explain what Hutton noticed about the gradual geologic change.
  3. List three areas of specialty in the study of paleontology.
  4. Using your imagination, diagram three different rock sequences and place them in a geologic column (see picture on page 65 as an example).
  5. How is superposition related to relative dating?
  6. Identify and explain one event that disturb rock layers and one physical feature that cuts across rock layers over time.
  7. 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

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