Understanding the Rock and Fossil Record

What is the correct order from oldest to youngest?

• JKLM

• MJKL

• JKML

• MLKJ

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

What geologic principle tells me the age of M

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Superposition

• Original Horizontality

• Inclusions

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The principle of uniformitarianism states that sedimentary rocks are deposited in ___________________ now as they. were millions of years ago.

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Determining the order of events and the relative age of rocks by examining the position of    rocks in a sequence is called _

• absolute dating

• original horizontality

• relative dating

• radiometric dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Approximately how old is the Earth?

• 4.6 million years

• 4.6 billion years

• 2022 years

• 4,600,000 years

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The remains or traces of once-living organisms

• Leftovers

• Remains

• Fossils

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

This is the actual age of something.

• absolute age

• relative age

• superposition

• uniform

• fossils

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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