Geologic Time Scale
Across
- 2. Huge explosion of life - trilobites, Fishes appear.
- 5. law that states oldest rock is on the bottom layer
- 6. impression of an organisms
- 8. Age of the mammals
- 10. organism with 3 lobbed exoskeleton. Found at the start of the cambrian explosion.
- 11. uses atom to figure out a more 'exact' age of a fossil or rock layer
- 14. age of something compared with others
Down
- 1. time it takes for half the atoms of an isotope to decay
- 3. when magma or dike cuts through a layer it is younger. this is the law of...
- 4. division of earths history into time units
- 7. Age of the dinosaurs - seed bearing plants
- 9. longest part of earths history - simple life
- 12. protects earth from suns DEADLY LAZER.
- 13. fossil that helps quickly identify how old a rock layer is