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Slide 1End Show Slide 1 of 40 Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall Outine 17-1: The Fossil Record Slide 2 End Show Slide 2 of 40 17-1 The Fossil Record Copyright Pearson Prentice…
Slide 1 Slide 2 GEOLOGIC TIME How do we know when things happened? 1 Slide 3 Goals Students will write about, talk about, and understand the principles of relative dating…
Slide 1Plate Tectonics Alfred Wegener – early 1900s proposed the concept of Continental Drift- the continents were once joined a large super continent called Pangaea –…
Slide 1The Geological History of Connecticut Presentation for Hillcrest Middle School Grade 7 January 15, 2013 Slide 2 From: The Influence of Geology on the Connecticut Landscape…
1.Geologic Time2. Trilobite eye position changed as the species adapted to various environments. 3. Trilobite bodies and tails changed in response to changing environments.…
1.The Origin of our Solar System and the Earth2. It’s in the stars… Nebula – an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas, helium gas and other ionized particles. The…
1.Fossils and the Rock Record “ The Geologic Time Scale”2. The Geologic Time Scale By studying the characteristics of rocks and the fossils within them, geologists can:…