Latin Nonsense
The Layers Speak
Oh to Date
Class Periods
It's MS not MRS
100

Means Before

What is Pre

100

The contact between sedimentary rocks that are significantly different in age or between sedimentary rocks and older, eroded igneous or metamorphic rocks.

What is an unconformity?

100

The science of determining the relative order of past events without necessarily determining their absolute age.

What is Relative Data?

100

Time period with the first human.

What is the Quarternary period?

100

The number of Plants in Ms Williams room.

What is ~70?

200

Means After

What is Post?

200
These are missing in an unconformity

What is rock and time?

200

The dating of a rock that uses the half-life of radioactive atoms to figure out the age of the rock layers the atoms are in.

What is Radiometric Dating?

200

The time period that saw the destruction of the dinosaurs due to a meteor.

What is the Cretateous period?

200

Ms Williams' favorite color.

What is Green?

300

Means between

What is inter?

300

The correlation that relates time.

What is Chronocorrelation?

300

Two or more forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei, and  differ in relative atomic mass.

What is a Half-life?

300

This time period was rich in animal and plant life creating coal.

What is the Carboniferous period?

300

Ms Williams' favorite coffee place.

What is the Joe?

400

Means Opposite

What is De?

400

The changes in the rock where ONLY time is definitely missing.

What is a Paraconformity?

400

Two or more forms of the same element that contain equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei, and  differ in relative atomic mass

What is an isotope

400

This time period saw the rise of the Appalachian mountains.

What is the Permian Period?

400

The number of teachers in Ms Williams' immediate family.

What is 5 (including her)?

500
Means Against

What is contra?

500

The Four types of unconformities. 

What are Disconformity, Nonconformity, angular unconformity, and part conformity?

500

The sum of the follwing equation: 

A scientist knows that half of the parent atoms will turn into daughter atoms every 10,000 years. Originally, there is 20mg of parent atoms 10,000 years go by

What is 10 mg?

500

What ERA saw the beginning of animals

What is the Pre-cambrian Era

500

The names of Ms Williams Cats.

(Relates to color: 1 orange and 1 black)

What are Saffron and Truffles?