Roper Mountain
Today Zach visits Roper Mountain and experiences life frozen in time as he explores fossils and animal characteristics that helped prevent extinction for certain organisms.
8.E.6A. Conceptual Understanding: The geologic time scale interpreted from rock strata provides a way to organize major historical events in Earth’s history. Analysis of rock strata and the fossil record, which documents the existence, diversity, extinction, and change of many life forms throughout history, provide only relative dates, not an absolute scale. Changes in life forms are shaped by Earth’s varying geological conditions.