Fossils & Relative Dating of Fossils
Metamorphic Rocks & Radiometric Dating of Rocks
Geologic Time Scale
Seafloor Spreading & Wave Erosion and Deposition
Weathering & Erosion
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This is 2 questions in 1. Get both of them right you get 200 points. Get one right 100 points. Get one wrong lose 100 points. This can be stealed. 1. What are fossils? 2. How old do fossils have to be to be considered fossils?
1. Fossils are the preserved remains of animals or plants. 2. Over 10,000 years old.
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What are metamorphic rocks?
Metamorphic rocks are when heat and pressure change rocks. These are metamorphic rocks.
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How much eras are there?
6 eras.
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Where does seafloor spreading occur?
Seafloor spreading takes place at mid-ocean ridges.
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What is erosion?
Erosion is when the soil, mud or sand is moved by wind, ice, or water.
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What is relative age?
Relative age is the age of something relative to the age of something else.
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What is radiometric dating?
Radiometric dating determines how old something is using radioactive isotopes.
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______________ is 800 million years long.
Hadean.
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How do waves cause erosion?
Waves can cause erosion over a short or long period of time. Waves breaking can cause erosion as they his the shoreline, or the salt in the water can break down rocks. Waves can also force water into the cracks of rocks or abrade the rocks by beating them with the small rocks that they carry.
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What is weathering?
Weathering is the chemical or physical breakdown of rocks, soils, or minerals at Earth’s surface.
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What are the types of fossils? Say their definition.
Body fossils are the preserved remains of a plant or animal's body. Trace fossils are the remains of the activity of an animal, such as preserved track ways, footprints, fossil sized eggshells, and nests.
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Where do metamorphic rocks form?
Deep in the earth.
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Name all the eras. Spell them.
Hadean, Archean, Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Proterozoic, and Paleozoic.
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Explain why a ridge exists.
As tectonic plates move apart, magma fills it in and creates ridges.
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What are the two types of weathering?
Mechanical weathering takes place when rocks are broken down without any change in the chemical nature of the rocks. Chemical weathering takes place in almost all types of rocks. Erosion is wearing away of rock.
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What are the laws of relative dating? Name them only. *hint-there are 4 laws.*
The laws are law of superposition, law of original horizontality, law of cross-cutting, and law of lateral continuity.
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What are metamorphic rocks classified by?
Texture and composition.
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__________________ is 1,958,000,000 years long.
Proterozoic.
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What is seafloor spreading?
Sea-floor spreading is the process in which the ocean floor is extended when two plates move apart.
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What is an example of chemical weathering?
There is many.
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What are the steps of how a fossil is made?
Something dies. The body is washed into a river or lake. The body lies on the bottom of the ocean and the flesh rots away. The skeleton is buried under layers of mud and minerals seep into the bones. Later the sea level drops and the mud turn to rock.
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Relative dating is used to determine the age of a fossils by looking at its _____________ ____ __________ of sedimetary rocks.
positions in layers
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If Paleozoic is 261,000,000 million years long, and we have a scale using each centimeter as 7,500,000. How much centimeters long is Paleozoic?
34 or 34.8 centimeters
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How do waves cause erosion and deposition?
Waves cause erosion and deposition by their movement. They move with so much force on the cost line which crashes the rocks. They are eroded and deposited on the shores.
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Which comes first weathering or erosion? Explain.
Weathering....
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