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2.4 Rock Cycles, Formations, and Dating

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Question 1
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Match the question to the correct answer.

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What is the geologic process that occurs between sedimentary and metamorphic?
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Heat and Pressure
What is the geologic process that occurs between magma and igneous?
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cooling
What is the geologic process that occurs between igenous and sediment?
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weathering and erosion
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Question 3
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Question 4
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Question 5
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You begin digging in the park while volunteering. You find a fossil.
Explain:
1. What would be your first step in trying to determine the age of the fossil?
2. Why would that be your first step?

Question 6
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You begin digging in the park while volunteering. You find a rock with a bunch of air pockets inside the rock.
Explain:
1. What would be your first step in trying to determine the age of the rock?
2. Why would that be your first step?

Question 7
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What is one benefit of relative dating?

Question 8
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What is one advantage of abolute dating?

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Question 9
9.

Put the letters in the correct sequence of events.

The oldest event (letter) should be at the very top, and the youngest event (letter) should be at the bottom.

Check off all the ways that are used to RELATIVE date a specimen.
Thermoluminescence
Amino acid dating
Cross dating
Stratigraphy
Biostratigraphy
Fluorine dating
Dendrochronology
Radiometric dating
Check off all the ways that are used to ABSOLUTE date a specimen.
Dendrochronology
Amino acid dating
Stratigraphy
Fluorine dating
Cross dating
Radiometric dating
Thermoluminescence
Biostratigraphy
Match the following dating techniques to their 'simplified' definitions.
Biostratigraphy
bottom layer = older ; top layer = newer
Thermoluminescence
bottom layer = older ; top layer = newer ...but with fossils and animals
Amino Acid dating
comparing fossils in other layers
Stratigraphy
testing bone absorption
Cross dating
measure of an isotopes found in fossils
Radiometric dating
protein content in fossils
Fluorine dating
trees grow rings
Dendrochronology
last time it was heated
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