Age of Rocks Review

Fossil #1 is found 700ft under ground and fossil #2 is found 300ft under ground, which is newer?

• Fossil #1

• Fossil #2

• Neither fossil is newer

• Both Fossils are the same age

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The idea that Earth processes that are at work today were at work in the past is called:

• fossil record

• rock cycle

• rock formation

• uniformitarianism

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

An estimation of a age made by comparing position of two objects is called:

• rock cycle

• fossil record

• relative age

• clast record

The theory that undisturbed layers of rock have the oldest layers on the bottom and the youngest on the top is called ______

• fossil record

• rock cycle

• law of superposition

• stratum

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The preserved remains of an organism from long ago is called a ___________

• stratum

• clast

• fossil

• relative age

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

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

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.MS-ESS1-4

The moon was made from a piece of _________ .

• Moon

• Earth

• radioactive rocks

• rock

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6