AGE OF ROCKS LESSON

The Age of Earth’s

Rocks

Module F Unit 2 Lesson 1

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Standards and Objectives

Standards:

•MS-ESS1-4. Construct a scientific explanation based on evidence from rock strata for how the geologic

time scale is used to organize Earth’s 4.6-billion-year-old history.

Objectives:

•Determine the ages of Earth’s rocks and fossils using relative and absolute dating methods.

•Analyze evidence used to organize Earth's long history.

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Relative Dating

يبسنلا خيرأتلا

Absolute Dating

قلطملا خيرأتلا

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Geological Heritage: Emphasize the geological heritage of the UAE, including its unique rock formations, fossil sites, and geological landmarks. Understanding the ages of Earth's rocks and fossils using relative and absolute dating methods contributes to preserving and promoting this geological heritage as part of the UAE's national identity. What are some ways we can preserve and promote the UAE's geological heritage for future generations? 

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Example:

Rocks

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Rocks tell us a lot about

the past

Rocks change as processes take

place over years.

Different rocks form in
different environments.

Why would anyone want to study rocks?

What are the 3 types of rocks?

Igneous, Sedimentary, metamorphic

What processes change
earth’s surface over time?

Weathering, erosion, deposition

Multiple Choice

What is radiometric dating and how does it help scientists determine the absolute age of rocks and fossils?

• Radiometric dating measures the amount of radioactive material in a rock to determine its age, helping scientists determine the absolute age of rocks and fossils.

• Radiometric dating measures the amount of sediment in a rock to determine its age, helping scientists determine the absolute age of rocks and fossils.

• Radiometric dating measures the temperature of a rock to determine its age, helping scientists determine the absolute age of rocks and fossils.

• Radiometric dating measures the hardness of a rock to determine its age, helping scientists determine the absolute age of rocks and fossils.

Fossils in Sedimentary Rocks

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Place numbers 1-3 next to the steps to show the correct order of fossil formation

The starfish lives in a coral

reef in the ocean.

The starfish was quickly

buried by sediments.

The sediments hardened into
rock overtime and preserved

the starfish as a fossil.

Fossils in Sedimentary Rocks

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•Describe how earth’s materials and living organism interact to form fossils.

o Decaying dead plants and animals are buried beneath sediments and form

fossils over time.

Relative Age

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Tala made pancakes for her friends. She cooked the pancakes one at a time while stacking them on a

plate. Can you identify which one is the oldest and which is the youngest?

Youngest

Oldest

Tala then started to cut the pancake for her friends. Now, which is younger? The cut or the pancake?

The cut happened after the pancakes were made, so the cut is younger

than the pancakes.

Draw

DRAW WHAT ROCK LAYERS AND LABEL FROM THE OLDEST AND YOOUNGEST ROCK LAYERS.

Relative Age

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Use the illustration to answer the following questions:

•What happened first: the igneous pluton D or the earthquake fault line E? Igneous pluton D

•Which rock layer was put down last (A, B, C, or D)? D

•Which way did the rocks on the right move? (upward or downward)? Downward

Multiple Choice

States that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layers have not been disturbed

• Law of crosscutting
• Law of superposition
• Relative Dating
• Unconformity

Multiple Choice

Traces or remains of organisms that lived long ago

• Fossil
• Unconformity
• Superposition
• Column

Multiple Choice

An ordered arrangement of rock layers that is based on the relative ages of the rocks

• Superposition
• Unconformity
• Layered
• Geologic Column

Relative Age

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Fossils:

•Fossils are the same age as the rock in which they are found

•Fossil record: which is all of Earth’s known fossils and the information they contain.

Absolute Age

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Half-life: is the amount of time needed for half the number of unstable particles to

change into more stable particles.

Example:

16 unstable particles

0 stable particles

8 unstable particles

8 stable particles

4 unstable particles
12 stable particles

2 unstable particles
14 stable particles

1.3 Million years

1.3 Million years

1.3 Million years

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Different types of unstable particles exist in rocks, and each type breaks down at a specific rate

1 half life

2 half lives

3 half lives

Absolute Age

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2,112

Absolute Age

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Absolute age of earth is 4.6 Billion years old.

How did scientists know that?

Not from rocks because rocks are weathered, eroded, melted ….

But from Meteorites, which are small rocky bodies from space, help determine Earth's age as

they formed around the same time as our planet.

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corals

foraminifera

Geologists found that Hafeet Mountain layers contain many fossils including corals

and foraminifera. Geologist understood that the location was a marine environment, and the

area was covered by water millions years ago.

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