WorksheetsGeologic Time
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 1hrs 19mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who is considered the father of Geology? (He is in the picture)
a)
Rasputin
b)
James Hutton
c)
Angelina Jolie
d)
Alfred Wegner
2.
What is absolute age?
a)
I don't know
b)
The exact measurement of isotopes in a particle
c)
The exact determined age of a certain type of object
d)
When fossils are found and people can assume age by looking at it's surroundings
3.
What is Relative Age?
a)
An assumption
b)
Quick! Call Albert Einstien...He will know what to do! Oh wait he is dead... :(
c)
An assumed age about an object based on surrounding matter or material in the found area
d)
Ukroboronprom
4.
What does the law of Uniformitarianism suggest?
a)
Uniformat...
Unislakabalka...
Uniformi-AH CURSE WORD!
Unislakabalka...
Uniformi-AH CURSE WORD!
b)
The key is the past of the present...Which
is the past...Which is
the present...
is the past...Which is
the present...
c)
The present is the key to the past...
d)
Uniformitarianism is the belief in the common class working in goal for the people...Wait that is communism...
5.
What is the current geologic era today?
a)
Cenozoic Era
b)
Finland?
c)
Paleozoic Era
d)
Jurassic Era
6.
What was one of the first...And LONGEST Eras of the earth
a)
Paleozoic Era
b)
Anti-Climatic Era
c)
Cenozoic Era
d)
Mesozoic Era
7.
What is half life?
a)
The time it takes to do Biochemical Engineering
b)
The time it takes for half an amount of substance to decay
c)
Talk of substance decay? HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!
d)
..?
8.
If an object has 6.25% of its original substance left, it has a half-life of 10 years, what was its age when no changes were made?
a)
3.14159265359
years
years
b)
45 years
c)
40 years
d)
30 years
9.
Sponge fossils are found in Nevada, what can you infer about the past of this area?
a)
Who...Lives in a pineapple under the sea?!
b)
An ocean covered the land forming present-day Nevada
c)
The lands were once filled with flowing rivers
d)
The sponges gambled to death in underwater Las Vegas...
10.
If seashells were found on a mountaintop...What can you infer about it's past?
a)
It was covered in rivers
b)
It was an underwater peak
c)
Toyota held auctions there!
d)
It was an underwater area in which seashells mated
11.
On this picture, which can you infer is the oldest layer?
a)
Layer F
b)
Layer I
c)
Layer B
d)
Layer R
12.
True or false: A fault or magma rising can affect the order of the rock layers
a)
True
b)
False
c)
Just...Don't pick this answer, it is not worth it.
d)
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13.
(Bonus Question) What is the capital of Finland?
a)
Espoo
b)
Turku
c)
Reykjavik
d)
Helsinki
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