Absolute Age
Relative Age
Absolute Age Dating
Constant
Relative Age Dating Part Due
100
What do absolute dating methods determine?
What is how much time has passed since rocks formed?
100
What is the opposite of relative data?
What is absolute data?
100
What does absolute age dating produce?
What is the numeric age of an object?
100
What is the principle that states the processes of the Earth are the same today as they were in the past?
What is Uniformitarianism?
100
What is the principle of Relative age dating that says the older rocks are deeper in the ground?
Superposition
200
How is absolute dating different from relative dating?
Relative age dating is comparing rock layers to each other, while absolute age dating is determining the numeric age of the rock.
200
What does relative data not give?
What are actual numeric dates?
200
How do we determine absolute age dating?
What are radioactive dating methods? (Carbon-14,
200
This valley is forming now, but in the past how would this river valley formed?
What is the same way?
200
What is the relative age dating principle that says that the rock layers are laid down in flat sheets?
Original Horizontality
300
List one way of finding absolute age?
Radiometric Dating
300
What does a river cutting cause in a sedimentary rock?
What is a gap?
300
What is the principle of relative age dating that says the rock layers are laid down in large sheets?
Lateral Continuity
400
What is the best rock for absolute dating?
What is a sedimentary rock?
400
What dating does relative data give?
What is a comparative age?
400
What is the principle of relative age dating that says the cracks in rock layers are younger than the rock it cracks?
Cross-Cutting Relationships
500
How old does a sedimentary rock have to be to be dated with absolute age?
What is 50,000 years?
500
How do layers of a sedimentary rock extend?
What is horizontally?
500
What is the principle of relative age dating that says that a rock enclosed in another rock is older than the rock it encloses?
Inclusion.