Reference Table
The page that contains information about bedrock geology.
What is page 3?
The period and epoch for the earliest birds.
The law that states that layers of sedimentary rocks are put down in flat layers.
What is the law of original horizontality?
Carbon-14 has been decaying for 11,400 years. How many half lives have passed?
What is 2?
The name of the first Harry Potter book.
What is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone?
The page you can find information about the age of the Earth on.
What is page 8?
The Period and Epoch for abundant grazing mammals.
What is the Miocene and the Neogene?
The law that states that the oldest layers are at the bottom.
What is the law of superposition?
A piece of bone is 87.5 % Nitrogen 14, how many years have passed?
what is 17,100 years?
What is 1912?
The page on which you can find information about when pangaea began to break up.
What is page 9?
The period, era, and epoch for the earliest insects.
What is the late silurian in the paleozoic?
The law that states that an intrusion is younger than the rocks it crosses.
What is the law of crosscutting relations?
Uranium-238 is an important isotope for dating rocks. Why?
What are the Andes Mountains?
I ask you to find which landscape region in new york holds a specific index fossil from a specific time period. Name the four pages you should look at (page numbers)
What are pages 2,3,8,and 9?
The era, period, and epoch for the earliest grasses.
What is the oligocene, paleogene, and cenozoic?
The law that states if things occurred in the past (erosion, volcanism), will occur in the future.
What is the law of Uniformitarianism?
A sample of rock has 300 grams of potassium-40. After 5 half lives, how many grams of potassium remain?
what is 9.375 grams?
What color are my eyes?
What is bluish?
I ask you to tell me the name of three index fossils and which town you can find them near in new york, what pages are you looking at in your reference table?
What are pages 3, 8, and 9?
What is the eon, era, period, and epoch for diverse bony fishes.
What is the early cretaceous, mesozoic, and phanerozoic?
What is (me walking around and looking at your whiteboards to see if they're right)
Rubidium-87 has gone through 6 half lives, what percentage of Strontium-87 is there?
What is 98.4375%?
Which US president is thought to have had the longest beard?
Who was Rutherford B. Hayes?