Word List Paleontology 131 words

Paleontology Vocabulary Word List (131)

• A

  academia, accuracy, activity, affect, ago, analysis, ancestors, ancient, appreciation, archaeology, area, awareness

• B

  before, biology, bones, buried

• C

  carbon isotope, care, century, cladistics, classifications, climate, climate, collection, computers, consultations, controversy

• D

  dates, decipher, departments, detection, dig, dirt, discipline, discovery, dissertation, documentation

• E

  earth, Earth, effect, environment, eon, erosion, event, evidence, evolution, existence, expense, extinct

• F

  focus, fossils

• G

  genome, geology, global

• H

  history, Holocene, human, hundreds, hypothesis

• I

  identification, illustration, implements, information, intention, international, invertebrates

• J

  journey

• K

  knowledge

• L

  large, layers, legacy, life, location

• M

  mammals, meticulous, morphology, mystery

• N

• O

  observation, organism

• P

  plants, preserve, prior

• Q

  quality, quantity, query, quest

• R

  radiometric dating, rare, reconstruct, region, relationships, reliable, remains, resources, revelations, rock

• S

  scientific, see, significant, site, size, small, specialization, species, stratigraphy, study, subdivision, support, survival

• T

  taxonomy, techniques, terrain, theory, time, toil, tools, trace fossils, types

• U

  uncommon, uncover, unique, unravel, unusual

• V

  verification, vertebrates

• W

  witness, work, worksheets

• X

• Y

  years, yield

• Z