Geologic History
Across
- 2. has a half-life of 1.251×10 to the ninth years
- 4. buried erosional surface
- 8. the oldest geologic time interval of Earth
- 9. has a half-life of 4.5 billion years
- 11. a form of life that had become extinct 251 million years ago
- 13. disintegrate at a predictable rate
- 15. have a wide geographic area and existed for a short geologic time
- 16. The Acadian Mountains were formed as a result of North America and this
- 17. the approximate age of the universe
- 18. the event that occurred earliest in geologic history
Down
- 1. younger rock layers are on top of older rock layers
- 3. the first organism in line for the evolution of life on Earth
- 5. the youngest geologic time interval of Earth
- 6. what many scientists believe caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs and ammonoids
- 7. the last organism in line for the evolution of life on Earth
- 10. most often used when determining the age of fossil bones in sediments deposited during the Holocene Epoch
- 12. The division of Earth's geological history into eons, eras, periods, and epochs is based on this
- 14. group of organisms that existed for the greatest length of time
- 19. what living things have undergone in a theory