RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE DATING

RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE DATING

11th Grade

10 Qs

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RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE DATING

RELATIVE AND ABSOLUTE DATING

Assessment

Quiz

Science

11th Grade

Practice Problem

Medium

NGSS
HS-PS1-8, HS-ESS2-3, HS-ESS1-5

+1

Standards-aligned

Created by

MILDRED TAYAG

Used 29+ times

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10 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The principle that states that younger rocks lie above older rocks if the layers have not been disturbed.

LAW OF CROSS-CUTTING RELATIONSHIP

LAW OF LATERAL CONTINUITY

LAW OF ORIGINAL HORIZONTALITY

LAW OF SUPERPOSITION

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A mass of igneous rock that forms when magma is injected rock and then cools

FAULTS

FOLDS

INTRUSION

TILT

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-3

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

How can Scientists establish the relative ages of rocks?

By using fossils in undisturbed sequence of rocks.

By studying forces in the earth, such as tilting, folding, faults, and intrusions.

When the earth's forces move rock layers up or down unevenly, so that the layers are slanted.

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-5

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What determines the age of an event or object in years?

ABSOLUTE DATING

RELATIVE DATING

ROMANTIC DATING

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The breakdown of a radioactive isotope into a stable isotope of the same element or of another element. 

HALF-LIFE

ISOTOPES

RADIOACTIVE DECAY

RELATIVE DATING

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Atoms of the same element that have a different number of neutrons.

Half-life 

Isotopes 

Radioactive decay 

Relative dating 

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The average time needed for half of a sample of a radioactive isotope to undergo radioactive decay to form daughter isotopes.

ISOTOPES

HALF-LIFE

RADIOACTIVE DECAY

RELATIVE DATING

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