Relative Age Dating, Rock Record, Fossil Vocabulary Quiz

When magma cools and hardens into an igneous rock it's called a ________ & is always younger that the rock around & beneath it.

• Fossil

• Extrusion

• Fault

• Intrusion

In Igneous rocks, when lava hardens on the surface it causes __________ which is always younger than the rock below it.

• Fossil

• Extrusion

• Fault

• Intrusion

A surface of rock where rock has been eroded away causing a break or gap in the rock record.

• Fossil

• Unconformity

• Inclusion

• Igneous Intrusion

The matching of rocks and fossils from separate geographic locations.

• Unconformity

• Intrusion

• Correlation

• Inclusion

The rock record shows a chronological sequence of life on Earth, where sedimentary layers of rock have fossils at different depths, allowing us to tell relative ages of rock.

• False

• True

• -

What is relative age dating in reference to the rock record?

• -

• A method of dating that Alabama fans prefer to do.

• A method geologists use to tell an exact age of rock in the rock/fossil record.

• A method geologists use to tell an approximate age of rock in the rock/fossil record. Refers to rock layers as "older" & "younger"

  
  

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of an index fossil?

• lived for a long period of time

• lived for a short period of time

• were abundant

• inhabited many locations

Which principle is used to explain what layers H, G, E, D looked like before being tilted?

• original horizontality

• superposition

• inclusion

• lateral continuity

Which best describes the principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships?

• The numerical age in years of a rock or object.

• The principle that if one geologic feature cuts across another feature the feature that it cuts across is older.

• Principle that sediments are deposited in large continuous sheets in all lateral directions.

• Principle that most rock-forming minerals that are deposited in a horizontal layers.

Which best describe the Principle of Inclusion

• The principle that sediment are deposited in large continuous sheets in all lateral directions.

• A principle stating that geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that occurred in the past.

• The numerical age in years of a rock or a object.

• A piece of older rock that becomes part of a new rock.