2.4 Rock Cycles, Formations, and Dating
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9 questions
4
Match the question to the correct answer.
Match the question to the correct answer.
| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
What is the geologic process that occurs between sedimentary and metamorphic? | arrow_right_alt | Heat and Pressure |
What is the geologic process that occurs between magma and igneous? | arrow_right_alt | cooling |
What is the geologic process that occurs between igenous and sediment? | arrow_right_alt | weathering and erosion |
4
Check off all the ways that are used to RELATIVE date a specimen.
Check off all the ways that are used to RELATIVE date a specimen.
4
Check off all the ways that are used to ABSOLUTE date a specimen.
Check off all the ways that are used to ABSOLUTE date a specimen.
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Match the following dating techniques to their 'simplified' definitions.
Match the following dating techniques to their 'simplified' definitions.
| Draggable item | arrow_right_alt | Corresponding Item |
|---|---|---|
Biostratigraphy | arrow_right_alt | bottom layer = older ; top layer = newer |
Amino Acid dating | arrow_right_alt | bottom layer = older ; top layer = newer ...but with fossils and animals |
Fluorine dating | arrow_right_alt | comparing fossils in other layers |
Cross dating | arrow_right_alt | testing bone absorption |
Radiometric dating | arrow_right_alt | measure of an isotopes found in fossils |
Stratigraphy | arrow_right_alt | protein content in fossils |
Thermoluminescence | arrow_right_alt | trees grow rings |
Dendrochronology | arrow_right_alt | last time it was heated |
4
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 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?
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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?
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?
4
What is one benefit of relative dating?
What is one benefit of relative dating?
4
What is one advantage of abolute dating?
What is one advantage of abolute dating?
1
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.
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.
- G
- H
- F
- D
- A
- C
- J
- E
- I
- B