Fossils
Dating Rocks
Dating Rocks II
Rock Layers
RANDOM SCIENCE
100
The preserved remains or traces of an organism.
What is a fossil.
100
The age of a rock compared to other rocks.
What is relative age.
100
The method used to determine the absolute age of rocks.
What is absolute dating
100
What law is used to determine these relative ages?
What is law of superposition
100
The amount of matter in something
Mass
200
A hollow imprint that shows the shape of an organism.
What is a mold
200
Useful fossils that help to tell the relative ages of the rocks found in the same area
What are index fossils
200
The breakdown of a radioactive isotope into a stable isotope.
What is radioactive decay
200
Who is the youngest?
What is the fish and reptile
200
Density equation
What is mass divided by volume
300
An example of this type of fossil would be footprints.
What is a trace fossil.
300
An intrusion is always _________ than the rocks around it.
What is younger.
300
A scientist uses what to find a more precise age of a fossil
What is radioactive dating/Absolute dating
300
What claim can you make about the whale
What is it's older than all other layers because it was deposited first
300
calculating the volume of an irregularly shaped object
What is water displacement
400
A fossil formed when minerals replace all or part of an organism.
What is a petrified fossil.
400
Determining the actual age of an event or object in years.
What is radioactive dating/absolute dating
400
Finding a shell fossil in a desert tells us what?
what is that area used to be underwater
400
Layers from oldest to youngest
What is E,C,B,D,A
400
X-Axis Variable
What is independent variable?
500
The state fossil of Missouri
The crinoid
500
Explain how the Law of Superposition is used to determine the relative ages of sedimentary rock layers.
What is the oldest layer is that the bottom, and each higher layer is younger than the rocks below it.
500
Name for an ancient Large landmass where all the continents were once connected?
What is Pangea
500
Layer D
What is a cross-cutting relationship
500
y-axis variable
What is dependent variable