Geologic Time Scale Crossword
Across
- 2. to break down
- 6. process of storing carbon dioxide (CO2) in underground geologic formations
- 9. radioactivity
- 10. a hollow container
- 13. finding ages using comparisons
- 14. atom before it undergoes any chemical change
Down
- 1. is the rate of decay, and means the amount of time it takes for half of a remaining isotope to decay to a daughter prototype
- 3. the study of past events
- 4. a material covering a surface of a body
- 5. remains of organisms that has been preserved over time
- 7. a person who studies rocks, geology
- 8. numeric age of a layer of rocks
- 11. the placement of one thing above or on top of another
- 12. emission of ionizing radiation or particles