Across
- 2. defined as any genetic change in a population that is inherited over several generations
- 4. Natural selection
- 6. Changing shape by wind and water
- 8. the long period of time occupied by the earth's geologic history.
- 10. rock shape changing because of the weather
- 12. selecting of traits based on survivability success.
- 14. The action of extruding
- 15. The process of the Earth changing over time
- 17. a long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic.
- 20. scientist who studies fossils.
- 21. a basic law of geochronology
Down
- 1. chronological dating that relates geological strata to time
- 3. old remains of things
- 5. Tectonics the lithosphere of the earth is divided into a small number of plates
- 7. the action of intruding.
- 9. age estimate
- 11. a fossil that is useful for dating and correlating the strata in which it is found.
- 13. one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic
- 16. describe the variation in the DNA sequence in each of our genomes
- 18. Rock that has formed through the deposition and solidification of sediment
- 19. Exact age
