Vocab
Carbon Dating Game
Random Science
Throwback Questions
Just for Fun
100
The element we use to figure the age of once living things is called __________.
Carbon-14
100
What type of element is used to find the age of wood, bones and shells?
Carbon-14
100
How many teeth does an adult human have?
32
100
How old is the Earth?
4.6 billion years old
100
What job did Mr. Edens' dad have?
Army pilot
200
Determining the actual age of an object in years.
Absolute Dating
200
Some of you found out how old the ROCKS were in yesterday's game. Which element was needed to do this?
Uranium
200
Which continent has no bees
Antarctica
200
How long ago did the dinosaurs go extinct?
65 million years ago
200
What is Mr. Oxendine's dog's name?
Remmie
300
radioactive elements change to become a lighter more stable element in this process
Radioactive Decay
300
We found that the trees growing by the house had an age of 0 years. Why doesn't Carbon-14 work to tell us how old those trees are?
Carbon 14 tells you how long something has been DEAD! Doesn't work on living things.
300
How many tentacles does an octopus have?
NONE...octopuses have arms, not tentacles.
Squid have 8 arms and 2 tentacles.
300
What type of rocks make fossils?
Igneous, Metamorphic, or Sedimentary?
Sedimentary
300
What year were the first Air Jordan sneakers come out?
1984
400
The amount of time it takes for half of a sample to breakdown.
Half Life
400
Fill in the blank. As a fossil gets older, the amount of carbon-14 ___________.
Decreases.
400
What is the loudest animal?
Whales (specifically the sperm whale)
400
Name one of the ERAs in geologic time.
Paleozoic
Mesozoic
Cenozoic
400
What is the rarest M&M color?
Brown
500
Parent material turns into _______
Daughter material
500
Carbon-14 has a half-life of ______ years
5730
500
What is our moon's official name?
Luna
500
What are the three parts of an atom?
Protons
Neutrons
Electrons
500
How many infinity stones are there?
6