Rock Strata Geological Time

Uses the decay of radioactive elements to find the ___________________________ of a rock or fossil.

• Relative age

• Absolute age

• New age

• Real Age

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NGSS.HS-PS1-8

Claire would like to show that fossils provide evidence of how old Earth is. She knows that the fossil record can be used to deduce geologic time scales and present a record of Earth’s history. Which fossils match the Precambrian time period^?

• flowers and dinosaurs

• bacteria and primitive marine plants

• coral reefs and amphibians

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Geological Time is Broken down into four????

• Eras

• past times

• pillars

• timelocks

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

A break in the Earth's crust along which rocks move

• relative age

• unconformity

• fault

• folding

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

The age of a rock compared to the ages of other rocks is the rock's

• absolute age

• geologic age

• sedimentary age

• relative age

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Geologists use the law of _________ to determine the relative ages of sedimentary rock layers.

• geology

• superposition

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

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

• unconformity

• intrusion

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Letter "F" is a....

• inclusion

• intrusion

• fault

• unconformity 

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

The study of the nonliving things that the Earth is made of. It is the study of rocks in the Earth’s crust.

• geology

• geophysics

• googlology

• paleontology

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

The concept that the oldest rock layers are at the bottom of a sequence with younger rock layers deposited on top of them.

• relative dating

• superposition

• rock strata

• core sample