Relative & Absolute Dating

Match the following:

• Radioactive Dating

• 
• Age Difference

• 
• Stratigraphy

• 
• Index Fossil

• 

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

Which of the following can be used in Absolute Dating?

• Law of Cutting Relationships

• Radioactive Dating

• Law of Superposition

• Index Fossil

Which best defines Law of Cutting Relationship?

• Deformation events like folds, faults and igneous intrusions that cut across rocks are younger than the rocks they cut across

• Assemblages of fossils contained in strata are unique to the time they lived and can be used to correlate rocks of the same age

• Strata that are cut by a canyon later remain continuous on either side of the canyon

• Layers of rocks deposited from above are originally laid down horizontally

​ (a)   is determining the actual ​ (b)   of an event or object in years. While ​ (c)   is the ​ (d)   of determining if one rock or ​ (e)   is older or younger than another, without knowing their specific ages like how many years ago the object was formed.

• Absolute dating
• age
• relative dating
• process
• geologic event

Your granny is older than you.

• Absolute

• Relative

Stratigraphy

• Absolute

• Relative

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Arrange the letters from youngest (top) to oldest (bottom)

• A

• C

• B

• D

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

Is the time needed for half of a sample of a radioactive element to undergo radioactive decay and form daughter isotopes

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

A method used for dating wood, bones, shells, and other organic remains

Which of the following statement is CORRECT?

• N is younger than V

• C is older than Q

• C is the youngest

• Y is the oldest

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-5