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What is an organism used to identify a specific geologic time period called?
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It's called an index fossil.
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What is a gap in an area's geologic history called?
A gap in an area's geologic history is called an unconformity.
What is a long span of geologic time called?
An Eon.
A place where two geologic units meet is called?
contact
What is the dating method that uses the principle that undisturbed underlying geologic deposits are older than overlying geologic deposits called?
Stratigraphic dating.
About 88 percent of geologic time is represented by the time span called what?
88 percent of geologic time is represented by the Precambrian time span.
What role does urease play in UTI?
The presence of urease indicates the presence of a specific bacteria called proteus. It's useful to identify the organism to determine the correct antibiotic to cure it.
What organism specific physical appearance is called its?
A phenotype
What is the word for the place where an organism lives and that provides things the organism needs is called?
A niche is the specific area where an organism inhabits.
Conditions that identify the specific records you are looking for are called?
Criteria
Conditions that identify specific records you are looking for are called?
Criteria
The cells in a multicellular organism have specific jobs this is called cell?
specialization
A chemical substance released by an organism that causes a specific behavior in another organism of the same species is called?
Pheromones.
What is a gap in an area's geologic history called?
A gap in an area's geologic history is called an unconformity.
Eats other organism for food?
Any organism that eats another organism for food is called a heterotrophic animal. These organisms are also known as consumers.
Is a fish ectothermic?
Fish exhibit a specific type of ectothermy called Poikilothermy in which the environment in which the organism is in direct contact determines the organism's temperature.
What do you called the scale of time that records the events about the history of the earth?
Geologic Time. It's called the Geologic Time Scale.
What does geologic time have to do with eras?
Eras are subdivisions of larger units of geologic time called eons.
