<span>C.)The average rate at which a mountain range rises each year is used to estimate how long ago the range began to rise.
Since geological time and movement takes place over a huge amount of time, most geologist measure the geological time by taking the average rate of almost all the sample and compare. </span>
Biotic and living are the same thing, abiotic would be non-living
The growth of plants and formation of land mammals characterized the paleozoic era.