Across
- 4. The oldest geological time period
- 5. Scientists use these as evidence to support geological theories
- 6. The scientific study of rocks
- 8. Important group of arthropods in geological time
- 9. Famous ancient life form found of the Western Australian coast
- 11. The most recent of the geological time periods
- 12. Believed to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs
Down
- 1. The process which exposes ancient rock formations
- 2. Referred to as the "Age of the Dinosaurs"
- 3. Name given to animals that do not have a backbone
- 5. The process by which ancient living beings are preserved
- 7. The time period in which vertebrates first developed
- 9. Rock type that allows excellent fossils to form
- 10. Geological time is broken up into 4 of these
