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| understanding that there are inviolable laws of nature that have not changed in the course of time |
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| aggregate of mineral grains |
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| inorganic element or compund that is characterized by its chemical composition and internal structure |
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| layered rocks that accumulate under the influence of gravity |
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| alteration of preexisting rocks at high temps and pressures |
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| oldest strata lie at the bottom and sucessively higher strata are progressively younger |
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| states that all strata are horizontal when they form or that almost all strata are initially more nearly horizontal than vertical |
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| Original lateral continuity |
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| similiar rocks on opposite sides of a canyon were once connected |
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| Law of intrusive relationships |
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| Principle that an intrusive igneous rock is always younger than the rock that it invades. |
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| an erosional surface between a group of strata and the rocks beneath them--- represents a time of erosion rather than deposition |
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| when a group of rocks has been tilted eroded and younger rocks have been deposited on top of them |
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| beds below an eroded surface are undisturbed, irregular surface between groups of beds- reveal a past episode of erosion |
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| an unconformity in which bedded rocks lost on an eroded surface of igneous or metamorphic rock |
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| remains or tangible evidence of ancient life found within rocks |
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a group of closely related organisms
a species is a ____ |
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| is a tree of life produced by evolutionary branching |
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| Archaebacteria, eubacteria,protista, fungi. animalia, plantae |
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| Archaebacteria and Eubacteria |
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| contain ___ which are prokaryotic differing from the other kingdoms or organisms in lacking a nucleus and other structures found in cells of eukaryotes |
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| single celled eukaryotes and fleshy algae |
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| simple multicellular forms of life that absorb food from decaying dead organisms |
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| space within a rock that is 3d negative imprint of the organic structure |
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