1. Jeopardy Take out Reference Tables Take out Notebook
Respond in the form of a question
Put a piece of paper in folder with everyone’s name on it.
“Ring In” using folder

2. Principles of Geologic History
Sequencing
Geologic Time
Faults, Folds & Fossils
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Double Jeopardy

3. This probably formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
Planet Earth
What is Planet Earth?
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4. Rocks at the bottom of an undisturbed layer is usually this.
oldest
What is the oldest?
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5. Layers are dated by comparing one to other.
oldest
What is the relative dating?
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6. Layers are dated by comparing radioactive material.
oldest
What is the absolute dating?
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7. These are used to compare the ages of the rock layers because they existed for a short period of time.
What are index fossils?
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8. Identify the geologic process in this picture
folding
What is folding?
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9. Identify the geologic process in this picture
What is tilting?
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10. Identify the geologic process in this picture
What is faulting?
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11. Identify the geologic process in this picture
What is an intrusion?
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12. When a part of the rock record is missing, it is called this.
What is an unconformity?
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13. Our atmosphere formed during this vast block of time.
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What is the Pre-Cambrian Era?

14. During this Era, Life on Earth was dominated by marine life.
What is the Paleozoic Era?
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15. Humans, mammoths and mastodons frolicked on the planet during this epoch
What is the Pleistocene Epoch?
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16. Pangaea broke up during this period.
What is the Cretaceous Period?
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17. This creature makes the best index fossil.
What is the Placoderm Fish?
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18. Breaks in the rock where movement has occurred
oldest
What is a Fault?
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19. Bends in rock layers produced by movements of Earth's crust
oldest
What are Folds?
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20. Preserved remains or traces of once living things
oldest
What are fossils?
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21. A gap in the geologic record caused by erosion
oldest
What is an unconformity ?
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22. Inclusion of crystalline rock formed by an intrusion, partial melting.
oldest
What are veins?
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23. Geologic Laws
Evolution
Fossils
Dating
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Final Jeopardy

24. The processes that shape Earth’s surface today are the same processes that occurred in the geologic past.
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What is the Law of Uniformitarianism?

25. A rock is always older than the processes that changed it.
What is the Law of Original Horizontality?
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26. Rocks at the bottom of an undisturbed area are usually the oldest.
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What is the Law of Superposition?

27. A rock layer had to be present to be affected by geologic events
What is the Law of Original Horizontality?
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28. “The Present is the Key to the Past”.
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What is the Law of Uniformitarianism?

29. This theory of change is based on evidence from the fossil record
oldest
What is Evolution?
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30. First theorized the Law of Organic Evolution
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Who is Charles Darwin?
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31. Complex Life developed during this Period
oldest
What is an the Cambrian Period ?
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32. These are species’ reactions to changes in the environment
oldest
What are adaptations?
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33. This caused the greatest extinction event on our planet.
oldest
What is the atmospheric transition?
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34. Used to determine age of a rock layer by comparing fossils in it.
oldest
What is an Index Fossil?
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35. Which of the three major rock types contain fossils?
oldest
What is sedimentary rock?
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36. Rock that is cemented shell fragments or precipitates of biologic origin.
oldest
What is limestone?
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37. Rock from plant remains
oldest
What is coal?
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38. The species primitive arthropods were typical organisms of the Paleozoic era, over 200 million years ago, a paleontologist may use them to determine the relative age of the rock strata.
oldest
What are Trilobites?
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39. It is only used to date once living things and artifacts.
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What is Carbon14?

40. Double Jeopardy Only the group that picked this
respond. The group can wager up to
their full amount of their points.

41. It is the decay product of Carbon14.
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What is Nitrogen?

42. It is used to date rock layers.
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What is Uranium238?

43. This has a long half-life; it is 49,000,000,000 years.
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What is Rubidium87?

44. In theory, this never reaches zero.
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What is radioactive material?

45.    Final Jeopardy In your folder write the question
for final jeopardy. Make Sure to
include your wager, up to 500.   

46. In 11,400 years, one kilogram of Carbon14 will be reduced to this amount.

47. Time’s up, hand in folder.

48. What is 0.25 kilograms? 

49. This is one of the theories of the extinction of the dinosaurs.

50. Time’s up, hand in folder.

51. Meteor Theory
Climate Change
Super-volcano 

52. This is a missing piece of the rock record.

53. Time’s up, hand in folder.

54. What is an unconformity?

55. Study Well Use your Reference Tables
The End
Study Well
Use your Reference Tables