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taxonomy
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The classification of organisms
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Carolus Linnaeus
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created the modern taxonomic system
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Uniformitarianism
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Processes that work to shape the world today operated in the same way in the past.
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Superposition
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In an undisturbed sequence of rocks, the oldest layer is at the bottom of the sequence and the youngest is at the top.
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Forminifera
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single celled organisms that produce a limestone test (shell). Predominate during the Cenozoic.
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Brachiopods
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Marine dwelling invertebrates predominate during the Paleozoic.
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Trilobites
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Marine arthropods that lived during the Paleozoic and were extinct at the end of the Permian.
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