Geologic Time & Dating

Geologic Time & Dating

11th - 12th Grade

20 Qs

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Geologic Time & Dating

Geologic Time & Dating

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11th - 12th Grade

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Megan McDermott

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20 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is relative dating?
An exact time period with dates
When a mass extinction occurred
An estimate of a time period or age
The age of Dinosaurs

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What era do we live in?
Cenozoic
Pleistocene
Jurassic
Holocene

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What was the name of the very first supercontinent?
Superzoic
Rodinia
Pangaea
Gigantica

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Carbon-14 is used to find the age of organic fossils, which means those organisms:
Were once living
Became fossilized in the ocean
Died in the desert
Came into contact with radiation

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

During which era was much of the Earth covered in swamps and forests?
Cretaceous
Carboniferous
Triassic
Precambrian

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The "daughter isotope" in a rock sample refers to the radioactive particles.
True
False

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

This is used to divide Earth's long history into manageable parts:
Invertebrates
Portioning
Law of Horizontality
Geologic Time Scale

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