Rocks Dating Quiz

This is used to find the age of once living

materials between 58,000 and 62,000 years old?

• Absolute Dating

• Potassium-Argon Dating

• Uranium-Lead Dating

• Radiocarbon Dating

What method is used to determine the age of organic materials?

• K-40

• U-238

• U-235

• C-14

What are the 4 principles of Relative Dating?

• Circle , Parabola , Hyperbola , Ellipse

• Principle of Original Horizontality , Principle of Superposition , Principle of Lateral Continuity ,

  Principle of Unconformity

• Principle of Fake Horizontality , Principle of Superpower , Principle of Lateral Continuity ,

  Principle of Unconformity

• Principle of Original Horizontality , Principle of Superposition , Principle of Vertical Continuity ,

  Principle of Uncomfortable

Atoms of the same element ( same number of proton ) but with different number of neutrons

• Radioactive Decay

• Isotopes

• Radiation

• Protium

When we say that the trilobite fossil is older than the dinosaur tooth fossil , what method are we using here?

• Isotopes

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

• Radioactive Decay

When we say that the trilobite fossil is 489 million years old , what method did we used here?

• Stratigraphy

• Absolute Dating

• 489 Million years old

• Relative Dating

What method is used in reading the order of layers of rocks?

• Stratagraphy

• Geology

• Biology

• Stratigraphy

This is a technique for deciding the hour of the beginning of rocks by estimating the proportion of radioactive argon to radioactive potassium in the stone.

• Potassium - Arbon Dating

• Uranium-Lead Dating

• Romantic Dating

• Radiocarbon Dating

Dating that is usually used in zircon crystals

• Radiocarbon Dating

• Uranium-Lead Dating

• Relative Dating

• Absolute Dating

K-Ar dating method is used to determine , what ?

• the rock

• to measure the exact size of a rock

• to determine the time of origin of the rocks

• to know how the rock cost