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100 200 300 400 500 Relative Dating Absolute Dating Radiometric Dating Fossils Vocabulary 1 Vocabulary 2
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He was a farmer and physician who came up with uniformitarianism. A 100
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Who was James Hutton? A 100
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s Hutton observed geological ______ on his ____ that prompted him to formulate the principle of uniformitarianism. A 200
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What are geological changes on his farm? A 200
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Using the Law of Superposition gives a ______ age. A 300
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What is relative? A 300
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Before the idea of uniformitarianism, people believed the earth was ______ years old. A 400
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What is 6,000? A 400
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Relative age indicates only that one rock formation is _____ or _______ than another rock formation. A 500
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What is younger or older? A 500
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B 100 Scientist can study the rates of ______ in a stream to help estimate absolute age.
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What is erosion? B 100
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Using rates of erosion is not dependable for features like the Grand Canyon because… B 200
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What is the rates vary greatly over millions of years? B 200
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Another way to estimate absolute age is to calculate the rate of sediment deposition. This is not always accurate because… B 300
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What is the rates of deposition can vary such as during a flood ? B 300
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Varve count is similar to counting …. B 400
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What are growth rings in a tree’s trunk? (tree rings) B 400
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B 500 Sedimentary deposits in glacial lakes that are form varves consisting of _____ colored and ______ colored layers.
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What are light and dark colored layers? B 500
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Rocks generally contain small amounts of radioactive material that act as natural ______. C 100
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What are clocks? C 100
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Scientist use the natural breakdown of isotopes to accurately measure ______ age in rocks. C 200
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What is absolute age? C 200
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Scientist compare the amount of ____ and _____ isotopes to determine the absolute age of the rock. C 300
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What are parent and daughter? C 300
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DAILY DOUBLE C 400 DAILY DOUBLE Place A Wager
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It would take ____ half-lives for ¼ of the parent isotope to remain. C 400
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What is two? C 400
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To date dead organic materials, scientist can use _____ dating which uses the rate of decay of ______ 14 in the materials. ( same word for both ) C 500
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What is carbon? C 500
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Fossils can be used to help determine _______ and _______ age D 100
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What are relative and absolute? D 100
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Fossils can provide information about _______ changes that occurred in Earth’s history. D 200
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What are geological or climate changes? D 200
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Only organisms that are ______ quickly or protected from ____ can become fossils. D 300
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What are buried quickly and protected from decay? D 300
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Generally, these parts of organisms form fossils… (name 3 of 4) D 400
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What are wood, bones, teeth, and shells? D 400
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Name 3 of the 5 ways a fossil can form… D 500
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What are mummification, amber, tar seeps, freezing, and petrification? D 500
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The principle that states the geological processes of the present are the same geological processes of the past. E 100
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What is uniformitarianism ? E 100
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The age of an object in relation to the ages of other objects… E 200
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What is relative age? E 200
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The law that states that a sedimentary rock layer is older than the layer above it and younger than those below it. E 300
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What is the law of superposition? E 300
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Layers of rock are called… E 400
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What is strata? E 400
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E 500 A banded layer of sand and silt that is deposited annually in a lake that can be used to determine absolute age
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What is varve? E 500
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The remains of animals or plants that lived in a previous geologic time are called… F 100
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What are fossils? F 100
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The scientific study of fossils… F 200
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What is paleontology? F 200
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A fossilized mark that formed in sedimentary rock by the movement of an animal on or within soft sediment… F 300
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What is trace fossil? F 300
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A fossil that is used to establish the age of rock layers because it is distinct, abundant, and widespread and existed for only a short span of geologic time… F 400
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What is index fossil? F 400
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Fossilized dung or waste materials from ancient animals are called F 500
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What are coprolites? F 500
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The 3 of 4 characteristics that define an index fossil… Click on screen to continue
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What are occur in wide area, clearly identified from other fossils, existed in short time span, occurred in large numbers? Click on screen to continue
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