Unit-Vocabulary-List


This is a list of vocabulary terms:

 

Quiz 1:

  1. James Hutton
  2. Uniformitarianism
  3. Radiometric Dating
  4. Thermodynamics
  5. Pillow Lava
  6. Granite
  7. Basalt
  8. Stromatolite
  9. Photosynthesis
  10. Alfred Wegener
  11. Plate Tectonics
  12. Continental Drift
  13. Sea Floor Spreading
  14. Rodinia
  15. Snowball Earth
  16. Cambrian Explosion
  17. Mass Extinction
  18. Permian Extinction
  19. Mantle Plume
  20. Pangaea
  21. Iridium

 

Quiz 2: 

  1. Paleontologist
  2. Paleontology
  3. Fossil Record
  4. Amber 
  5. Mummification
  6. Tar Seeps
  7. Petrification
  8. Trace Fossils
  9. Imprints, Molds, Casts
  10. Coprolite
  11. Index fossil
  12. Geologic Time Scale 
  13. Eon
  14. Era
  15. Period 
  16. Epoch
  17. Age
  18. Precambrian Supereon
  19. Phanerozoic Eon
  20. Paleozoic Era (Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian Periods)
  21. Mesozoic Era (Triassic, Jurassic, Cretaceous Periods)
  22. Cenozoic Era (Tertiary, Quatenary Periods)
  23. Abiotic Factor
  24. Biodiversity
  25. Biotic Factor 
  26. Climate
  27. Dispersal
  28. Ecosystem
  29. Marine
  30. Terrestrial
  31. Mass extinction
  32. Uplift