geologic time

This is the age of rocks and geologic features as compared with other rocks and geologic features nearby.

• relative age

• absolute age

• superposition

• cross-cutting relationships

• inclusions

According to this Principle, sediments are deposited in large, flat sheets.

• Original Horizontality

• Superposition

• Lateral Continuity

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Inclusion

According to this Principle, if one geologic feature cuts across another feature, the feature that it cuts across is older.

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Lateral Continuity

• Inclusion

According to this Principle, if one rock contains pieces of another rock, the rock containing the pieces is younger than the pieces of rock it contains.

• Inclusion

• Superposition

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Lateral Continuity

• Original Horizontality

This is a piece of a rock that has been broken off and become part of a new rock.

• inclusion

• exclusion

• intrusion

• infusion

• exfoliation

These are the preserved remains or evidence of ancient living things.

• fossils

• corals

• teachers

• rocks

• boomers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

What is the correct order from oldest to youngest?

• JKLM

• MJKL

• JKML

• MLKJ

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What geologic principle tells me the age of M

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Inclusions

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

______________ is a surface where rock has eroded away, producing a break, or gap, in the rock record.

• Correlation

• Unconformities

• nonconformities

• unsurfaceformities

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Matching rocks and fossils from separate locations is called

• matching

• coordinate

• evidence location

• correlation