Relative vs Absolute Age Quiz Review

According to the law of superposition, the oldest fossils are found 

• At the top of the rock layers
• Near the bottom of the rock layers
• In the middle of the rock layers
• Somewhat near the surface

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Index fossils help determine relative age through correlating rock layers.

• True
• False

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The Law of Superposition helps scientists to determine what?

• The absolute age of rock layers
• The age of fossils
• The relative age of rock layers
• the super powers of rocks

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If you found an index fossil in a layer of rock in Montana and a similar fossil in a layer of rock in Texas, you would know that:

• the fossils and rock layers are the same age

• the fossils from Montana are older

• the fossils from England are older

• none of the above

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Which of the following offers a possible list of the layers in order from oldest to youngest?

• A, B, C, D, E

• E, C, B, D, A

• E, D, C, B, A

• C, B, A, D, E

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Put the layers in order from oldest to youngest.

• a, b, c, d, e
• b, c, d, a, e
• b, c, d, e, a 
• e, d, c, b, a

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Which is an example of absolute age?

• "This trilobite is older than that dinosaur."

• "That stromatolite is the absolute oldest fossil I've ever seen."

• "Velociraptors lived 71-75 million years ago."

• "The oldest sedimentary layer is on the bottom."

The statement that the oldest layer will be at the bottom in an undisturbed sequence of rock layers is called the Principle of ....

• Inclusions
• Unconformities
• Cross-Cutting Relationships
• Superposition

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Geologist use _________ to determine the absolute age of rocks.

• absolute age dating

• relative age dating

• radiation dating

• radioactive dating

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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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