Absolute Age of Rocks Review

Earth elements decay and change into another element in a process called_____________.

• radiation

• isotope

• radioactive decay

• half-life

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The __________of rocks is the numerical age and real age of rocks.

• relative age

• half-life

• absolute age

• earth age

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Geologist use _________ to determine the absolute age of rocks.

• absolute age dating

• relative age dating

• radiation dating

• radioactive dating

All organisms contain the element_________, so it is used to find the ages of fossils.

• carbon-14

• carbon-12

• carbon

• carbon age

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Geologist use the time it takes for a radioactive isotope to decay to half its original mass called a___________.

• radioactive decay

• isotope

• half-life

• carbon dating

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Radioactive dating shows ___________ rocks are 4.6 billion years old.

• Earth rocks

• Moon rocks

• Earth and Moon rocks

• Radioactive rocks

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

The moon was made from a piece of _________ .

• Moon

• Earth

• radioactive rocks

• rock

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Life on Earth has existed for more than _____________ years.

• 3.6 million

• 3 thousand

• 3 billion

• 4.6 billion

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A long-lived natually occurring radioactive carbon isotope:

• half-life

• Isotope

• Carbon-12

• Carbon-14

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

The thermal energy transferred by electromagnetic waves is called ____________________

• half-life

• radiation

• radioactive decay

• carbon-14

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NGSS.HS-PS3-4

NGSS.HS-PS4-3