The Relative dating game
Fascinating Fossils
Absolutely all about absolute dating
Science Careers
Mr. Shade's Wild Card
100
The lowest layer of rock is oldest. This is the principle of ____________.
Superposition
100
Due to the law of fossil succession, you will never find a T-Rex skeleton in the same layer of rock as ________________. Name any animal that fits.
Yes.
100
Carbon 14 decays into this atom.
Nitrogen 14
100
What type of scientist would study this object?
Archaeologist
100
Send up an artistic representative
Draw your best elephant on a skateboard in twelve seconds.
200
The white veins in this rock are made of quartz. They cut through this black rock. This is an example of what principle of geology?
Cross cutting relations
200
TRUE or FALSE: T Rex fossils are bones that have turned to rock.
True
200
This element has 6 protons.
Carbon
200
This type of scientist studies rocks and the history of the earth.
Geologist
200
Send up a brave representative
What is the name of your stuffed animal or teddy bear?
300
This type of rock is made from eroded sediment laid down in layers. It is not made from volcanoes, and it is not remelted.
Sedimentary rock.
300
What type of scientist studies ancient fossils?
Paleontologists
300
The half life of uranium-235 is 700 million years. How long does it take for 25% of a group of uranium-235 atoms to decay?
1,400 million years. Or 1.4 billion years.
300
These scientists loooooooooove dinosaurs.
Paleontologists.
300
Send up a vocally talented representative
Sing the opening line of the National Anthem.......................................................................................................................................................................... Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars
400
When water or wind washes away rock, it can be described with a word that starts with the letter E. What is this word?
Erosion
400
What is the longest Eon on the geologic time scale?
Precambrian
400
You find a bone that has 50% carbon 14 atoms, and 50% nitrogen 14 atoms. How old is this bone?
5,700 years old
400
In this class, we study _____________ science.
EARTH!
400
Send up a representative that is willing to sacrifice personal dignity for points.
Do the dolphin jump.
500
TRUE or FALSE: Relative dating is a way to find the exact age of an object.
FALSE
500
Name one of the three fossils that you dug up in our FOSSILS LAB.
Cool, right?
500
Count the ______ ______s to find the age of a tree.
Tree rings, or growth rings
500
A chemist studies this branch of science.
Chemistry
500
Send up a someone that knows how to swim.
Answer honestly...... do you pee the pool?
M
e
n
u