Chapter 12 vocabulary booklet
NAME: ________________________________
Date: ______________________
Period: _____________
Due date: _______________
Score: ______________/100
Directions:
1. Fill in the definition for each word.
2. Choose do to TWO of the following: Picture, Sentence, or
My Meaning.
3. The third option is extra credit.
Relative Dating
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Picture
My meaning
Radiometric Dating
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My meaning
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Isotope
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My meaning
Half-life
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My meaning
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Index Fossil
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My meaning
Geologic Time Scale
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Era
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Period
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Epoch
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My meaning
Nebula
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My meaning
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Ribozyme
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Cyanobacteria
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Endosymbiosis
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Paleozoic
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Cambrian Explosion
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Mesozoic
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Cenozoic
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Primate
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Prosimian
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Anthropoid
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Hominid
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My meaning
Bipedal
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Who Am I?
Choose among these terms to answer the riddles below:
Relative dating
Index fossil
Epoch
Primate
Radiometric dating Era
Nebula
Prosimian
Half-life
Period
Ribozyme
Anthropoid
Hominid
1. I am the amount of time it takes for half of an isotope in a sample to
decay into a different element: _________________________
2. I am made up of epochs and am the most commonly used unit of
time on the geologic time scale: _______________________
3. I am an RNA molecule that can catalyze specific chemical reactions:
_________________________
4. I am a fossil that is used to determine the age of other fossils or rock
layers: ___________________________
5. I can be used to estimate when something lived based on
comparing where it is found in a rock layer in relation to other rock
layers: ____________________________
6. I am the smallest unit of geologic time and I last several million
years: ____________________________
7. I am a member of a group of mammals that have flexible hands and
feet and forward-looking eyes: ________________________
8. I am a member of the oldest living primate group and am small with
big eyes: _______________________________
9. I can estimate the actual age of a fossil or rock layer by using the
decay rate of unstable isotopes in the sample that is tested:
_______________________________
10. I am made up of geologic periods and last tens to hundreds of
millions of years: _______________________________
11. I am a member of a group of primates that includes monkeys and
apes, and my name means “humanlike”: ______________________
12. I am a member of a group of primates whose only living species is
modern humans, Homo sapiens: ________________________
13. I am a condensing cloud of gas and dust in space: _______________
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