Earth Through Time

What is Relative Dating?

• Any method of determining whether something is older or younger than something else.

• How Geologists categorize plants

• How long something has been a fossil.

Organizing fossils all of Earth's known fossils from oldest to youngest shows life on Earth has __________________________.

• Recorded fossils

• stayed the same

• changed over time.

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What is it called when some rock layers are missing, forming gaps in the record?

• Subcommunities

• Unconformities

• Relative Dating

• Relative Age

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_________________________ is any method of measuring the actual age of something in years.

• Absolute dating

• Relative dating

• Relative age

• Absolute age

The igneous intrusion is _________ than the fault.

• younger

• older

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The fossils found in the shale are from animals that lived ___________ the animals that formed fossils in the limestone

• before

• after

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Over thousands to millions of years, geologic processes cause major changes to ____________

• weather

• animals

• landscapes

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

What would be an example of a geologic time that happened rapidly?

• A mountain changing over 500 years

• A meteorite

• A valley growing trees

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The ________________ is a compilation of all Earth's known rocks.

• Rock record

• Rock Cycle

• Absolute dating

• Relative dating

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The __________________ is a compilation of all Earth's known fossils and the information they provide about Earth's history.

• Geologic change

• Rock record

• Fossil record

• Molecular change

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