Earth Science Quiz 8.1-8.2: Relative and Absolute Age (of Rocks)

If a rock has a fault in it, the fault must be OLDER than the rock

• True

• False

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Put the letters in the correct order from OLDEST to NEWEST (most recent).

• A

• E

• C

• B

• D

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Place the examples in the correct category.

Groups:

(a) Relative Date

,

(b) Absolute Date

• The Super Nintendo is 33 years old.

• The bicycle is 3 years old.

• This rock is 415 million years old.

• The Super Nintendo is older than the Switch

• Mr. Prior is older than Ms. Bass

• Rock B is younger than Rock A

• My dog is 8 years old.

• My dog is older than my cat

A gap in the geologic record is known as a(n)_______________.

• unconformity
• intrusion

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According to the law of __________, in horizontal sedimentary rock layers the oldest layer is at the bottom and the youngest layer is at the top. 

• superposition
• index fossil

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The number of years that have passed since the rock formed is the rock's

• relative age
• law of superposition
• absolute age
• index fossil

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Earth elements decay and change into another element in a process called_____________.

• radiation

• isotope

• radioactive decay

• half-life

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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A long-lived natually occurring radioactive carbon isotope:

• half-life

• Isotope

• Carbon-12

• Carbon-14

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__________________________ states that geologic processes occurring today have occurred since the Earth was formed.

• Superposition

• Uniformitarianism

• Correlation

• Dendrochronology