| A | B |
|---|
| uniformitarianism | present day geologic processes explain how rocks were slowly formed |
| law of entropy | system tends to go down from order to disorder |
| history's building blocks | ancient records,current events, and information collected from many disciplines |
| clan | several families who are related and share a common need to work together for survival |
| missing links | cave men in between man's development |
| creationist | those who believe in creation |
| disciplines | many different fields of study |
| civilization | a culture which expands from villages and communities into more complex social and political cities |
| catastrophism | world wide catastrophe created rocks |
| omnivorous | eats both plants and animals |
| evolutionist | those who believe in evolution |
| tell | a flat-topped hill consisting of debris-covered ruins of ancient cities |
| culture | all the things one uses to control, benefit from, or make use of the environment |
| king lists | orderly lists of events with dates written by historians of ancient civilizations and cultures |
| carnivorous | meat eating |
| diplomacy | the study of relationships between government and peoples |
| trench cut | a method of excavating the soil |
