Across
- 2. Of a rock compared with others.
- 5. The age of a rock given as the number of years since the rock formed.
- 6. All the fossils that have been discovered and what scientists have learned from them.
- 8. The process of determining the age of an object using the half-life of one or more radioactive isotopes.
- 9. A group of similar organisms that can mate with each other and produce offspring that can also mate and reproduce.
- 12. This vast number of years into manageable periods, scientist created the geologic time scale.
Down
- 1. Long span of time which begins geologic time.
- 3. The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
- 4. To improve something by making small changes.
- 7. One of the three long units of geologist time between the Precambrian at the present.
- 10. A horizontal row of element in the periodic table.
- 11. A record of the geologic events and life forms in Earth’s history.
