Relative and Absolute Dating

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

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

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What are the relative ages of the features in order from oldest to youngest?

• Limestone, Basalt, Fault, Siltstone
• Siltstone, Fault, Basalt, Limestone
• Limestone, Fault, Basalt, Siltstone
• Limestone, Siltstone, Fault, Basalt

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

_{Which rock layer in the diagram seems to be the oldest?}

• F
• E
• B
• A

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Used to determine whether an object is older or younger than other objects

• Superposition
• Relative Dating
• Fossil
• Unconformity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Traces or remains of organisms that lived long ago

• Fossil
• Unconformity
• Superposition
• Column

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The best index fossils have which 3 traits?

• widespread geographically, long lifespan, only found in one location

• widespread geographically, short lifespan, abundant

• specific place, long lifespan, not abundant

• specific place, short lifespan, has to be a vertebrate

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

To be considered an index fossil, it had to have lived for a relatively short period of time.

• True
• False

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

The % of the parent isotope remaining after 1 Half Life.

• 50%

• 25%

• 12.5%

• 6.25%

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

_______ fossils can provide information about how organisms moved, rested, burrowed, etc.

• Mold
• Cast
• Trace
• Replacement

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

How old is the Earth?

• 33 million years

• 4.6 billion years

• 198 million years

• 3.9 billion years

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4