Dating
The rate of decay of an atom.
What is Half-life?
Strata
The layers of rocks are called this.
Remains of an organism that lived in the past.
What is a fossil?
The end of a group of organisms.
What is Mass Extinction?
The amount of time an organism lived.
What is the the time period?
Finding out how old one rock is compared to another rock.
What is Relative Age?
TRUE?FALSE
Fossils help date other fossils.
What is True?
The time it takes something to decay.
What is half-life?
The scientist that studies fossils.
Paleontologist
Longest geological time period.
What is the Precambrian?
Finding out how old a rock is in actual years.
What is Absolute Age?
Uses radioactive decay to determine age.
What is Absolute Dating?
An animal leaves a track in the mud, the sun bakes the mud. The end result is called a ____________.
What is a fossil?
What does a Geologist study?
What are rocks?
The oldest on the geologic time scale.
Cenozoic
Precambrian
Mesozoic
What is the Precambrian?
Relative Dating.
What is your mothers age?
Earth is the _______planet from the Sun.
What is Third?
The oldest fossils are found here.
Near the bottom layers of dirt.
Which fossil is older than the fish fossil?
(Diagram on the board.)
The fern.
Mesazoic period means Middle life.
TRUE?FALSE
True
TRUE?FALSE
Rock on top is young rock.
What is True?
Look at the diagram identify letter C.
Name the fossil.
What is an anomite?
Name two extinct animals/plants/reptile.
Thyliccine
Mastodon
In what time period do you live?
What is the Cenazoic?