Tenacity Quiz

This is the process of determining if one rock or geologic event is older or younger than another, without knowing their specific ages.

• Relative Dating

• Carbon Dating

• Absolute Dating

• Specific Dating

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

This allows archaeologists to construct a relative chronological sequence from the oldest (bottom) to youngest (top) layers.

• Law of Superposition

• Principle of Faunal Succession

• Stratigraphy

• Geostratigraphy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

This means the age of one object compared to the age of another, not the exact age of an object.

• Relative Dating

• Relativity

• Relative Age

• Reality Dating

This is the scale used to determine the history of the Earth.

• Geologic Time Scale

• Chronological Scale

• Calendar

• Calendar Scale

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

This is the horizontal beds that are uplifted and tilted or eroded followed by new deposition of horizontal beds.

• Nonconformity

• Disconformity

• Principle of Cross-Cutting

• Angular

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

This is an unconformity between parallel layers of sedimentary rocks which represents a period of erosion or non-deposition.

• Angular

• Principle of Cross-Cutting

• Nonconformity

• Disconformity

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-1

This is the sediment that is deposited on top of a horizontal bed of sedimentary rock.

• Nonconformity

• Unconformity

• Sedimentation

• Sublimation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

This states that the geologic feature which cuts another is the younger of the two features.

• Principle of Horizontality

• Principle of Faunal Succession

• Principle of Cross-Cutting

• Law of Segregation of Rocks

This is the remains of plants and animals that have existed only for a limited geologic period.

• Index Fossil

• Large Fossil

• Old Fossil

• Historical Fossil

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

This is found in many rock layers that have lived for long periods of time and cannot be used as index fossils.

• Trilobites

• Autotrophs

• Heterotrophs

• Brachiopods