2.4 Rock Cycles, Formations, and Dating

Match the question to the correct answer.

Check off all the ways that are used to RELATIVE date a specimen.

Check off all the ways that are used to ABSOLUTE date a specimen.

Match the following dating techniques to their 'simplified' definitions.

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?

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?

What is one benefit of relative dating?

What is one advantage of abolute dating?

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.

1. G
2. J
3. H
4. E
5. A
6. C
7. I
8. B
9. D
10. F