Geologic Time

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Across
  1. 5. Arrangement of events used as a measure of the relative or absolute age of any part of geologic time.
  2. 7. The movement of Earth’s plates that can cause rock layers to move.
  3. 9. The exact age of something.
  4. 10. When small pieces of rock (sediment) are moved around by wind and/or water.
Down
  1. 1. Evidence of past life that have been preserved in rocks.
  2. 2. The age of something based on its placement.
  3. 3. When sediment stops moving and collects in a new area.
  4. 4. Rock that forms when sediment from erosion is compressed together.
  5. 6. When rocks are broken down into smaller pieces.
  6. 8. When molten rock from inside Earth moves through cracks in the rock layers. This molten rock will sometimes reach and break through the surface.