Geological Time Scale Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The approximate age of a fossil
  2. 4. Any geologic feature that cuts through rocks or alters another part must be more recent.
  3. 5. When scientists use the physical appearance of an object to determine its age
  4. 7. determines if one rock is younger or older than the other
  5. 9. remain of prehistoric organisms
  6. 10. When the older rocks are at the bottom layers and the younger rocks are at the top layers
Down
  1. 1. The remains of organisms that lived for a limited time
  2. 2. When a rock formation contains other pieces of other rock formations, the included rock is older than the host rock
  3. 6. The exact date or time of the rock, the exact age of the rock
  4. 8. The Rate of Decay of unstable fossils