1) _______ Is a long cylinder of ice obtained from drilling through ice caps or ice sheets; used to study past climates. a) Ice core b) Fault c) Deposition d) Lithosphere 2) ________ is the process by which rocks break down as a result of chemical reactions a) Uniformitarianism b) Relative Dating c) Radioactivity d) Chemical Weathering 3) What is Geology? a) The top rock layer and its fossils is the youngest and the bottom is the oldest. if the layers have not been disturbed b) the study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth c) any method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than other events or objects d) the process of measuring the absolute age of geologic material by measuring the concentrations of radioactive isotopes and their decay products 4) a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface a) Igneous b) Metamorphic c) Sedimentary d) Epoch 5) a space in a rock that has the shape of the remains of a living thing that once occupied that space. a) Cast Fossil b) Half-Life c) Mold Fossil d) Deposition 6) the largest division of geologic time a) Era b) Epoch c) Period d) Eon 7) A scientist who studies fossils a) Paleontologist b) Unconformity c) fault d) Epoch 8) magma cutting through formed layers of sedimentary rock that then cools and hardens a) Plate Tectonics b) Absolute Dating c) igneous intrusion d) Law of Superposition

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