Celebration of Learning III Practice

What rules or Principles do we use to determine the relative ages of rocks?

• Principle of Original Horizontality

• Principle of Superposition

• Principle of Lateral Continuity

• Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationships

What are the 3 types of unconformities?

• Disconformity

• Angular Unconformity

• Nonconformity

• Conformity

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How do we compare the ages of rocks found in different parts of the world?

• Geologic Time Scale

• Correlation

• Calendar of Earth's History

• Through the 4 principles of Geology

How do fossils help us understand Geologic Time?

• Through the 5 principles of Geology

• Through the 4 principles of Geology

• Through the 6 principles of Geology

• Through the 3 principles of Geology

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What is the Geologic Time Scale?

• Calendar of Moon's history

• Calendar of Earth's history

• Calendar of Jupiter's history

• Calendar of Sun's history

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What is Absolute Dating?

• Accounting of history using units of time

• Predicting the relative ages of rocks using principles of Geology

What is Relative Dating?

• Accounting of history using units of time

• Predicting the relative ages of rocks using principles of Geology

What is radiometric decay?

• Calendar of Earth's history

• Time it takes for half of the parent isotopes to decay into daughter isotopes

• A process where the atom breaks apart, gives off energy, and changes its element

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What is a half-life?

• Time it takes for half of the parent isotopes to decay into daughter isotopes

• A process where the atom breaks apart, gives off energy, and changes its element

• Calendar of Earth's history

• Accounting of history using units of time

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How do we use these ideas to find the passage of time? (Relative Dating, Absolute Dating, Radiometric Decay, Half-Life)

• To predict the relative ages of rocks using principles of Geology

• Determine the rocks' ages

• Through the 4 principles of Geology

• Geologic Time Scale