Earth's Age and Evolution READING Quiz

USING THE READING PACKET What is the answer to BENCHMARK 1

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USING THE READING PACKET What is the answer to BENCHMARK 2

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• I

USING THE READING PACKET What is the answer to BENCHMARK 3

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USING THE READING PACKET What is the answer to BENCHMARK 4

• F

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USING THE READING PACKET What is the answer to BENCHMARK 5

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• D

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What are the two techniques used to determine the age of Earth and the rocks on its surface?

• Fossil dating and tree ring dating

• Luminescence dating and thermoluminescence dating

• Carbon dating and potassium-argon dating

• Absolute and relative dating

What principle allows scientists to compare the age of one rock or fossil to another?

• Principle of superposition

• Principle of inclusions

• Principle of original horizontality

• Principle of cross-cutting relationships

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What is the process of determining the actual age of an object using radiometric data?

• Radiometric dating

• Carbon dating

• Absolute dating

• Relative dating

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What are isotopes that decay at a constant rate and are measured in half-lives called?

• Unstable isotopes

• Stable isotopes

• Radioactive isotopes

• Parent isotopes

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How do scientists determine the absolute ages of rocks using radioactive isotopes?

• By analyzing the percentages of radioactive isotopes and daughter isotopes

• By measuring the thickness of the rock layers

• By studying the color of the rock

• By counting the number of fossils in the rock

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