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Cards in this guide (11)
What type of rock forms due to high pressure

metamorphic

What principle states that animals succeed each other in a definite sequence

Faunal succession

During loose sediment becomes sedimentary rock

lithification

What was briefly an anomaly in the human fossil record

The Piltdown man

During what time period were most coal deposits laid down

During the Carboniferous Period

Why are no rocks found that data from the first 800 million years of Earth's existence

Earth was too hot to have solid rocks at that time.

What is an important characteristic of an index fossil apex

It must have lived for a short geologic period of time.

What would trigger a climate change that can lead to mass extinction

A large asteroid colliding with the Earth would trigger a great cooling that might lead to some extinctions.

A large burning of fossil fuels (like we have been doing for 200 years) would trigger a great global warming that might lead to the extinction of all life on earth.

What caused disappearance of land bridges

Shrinking of the polar ice caps

What is current era today

The current era today is Cenozoic

Which of the following did not occur during the cenezoic era

The formation of the ozone layer

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