Analyzing the Rock and Fossil Records

This principal states that, if magma breaks into a rock, the pieces of rock in the magma are older than the magma itself.

• Original Horizontality

• Inclusions

• Lateral Continuity

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

Canyons are caused by which principle of relative-age dating? Hint: This also states that ground is placed in all directions.

• Superposition

• Cross-Cutting Relationships

• Lateral Continuity

• Inclusions

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

_____________ the principle that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest rocks are on the bottom.

• Superposition is

• Horizontal position is

• Churchill Downs is

• lateral position is

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

______________ is a surface where rock has eroded away, producing a break, or gap, in the rock record.

• Correlation

• Unconformities

• nonconformities

• unsurfaceformities

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Rocks or sediment layers that are used as a marker to correlate rock formations in different regions where layers are exposed are called

• key beds

• volcanic eruption

• meteorite strike

• volcanic marker

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

Matching rocks and fossils from separate locations is called

• matching

• coordinate

• evidence location

• correlation

________ fossils represent species that existed on Earth for a short length of time, were abundant, and inhabited many locations. Man's remains are also included.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

______________ states that geologic processes that occur today are similar to those that have occurred in the past

• relative-age dating

• absolute age

• formation

• uniformitarianism

• What Happened To Virgil

What type of dating indicates an approximate age of a fossil in relationship to other layers of rock in an area?

• Relative dating

• Absolute Dating

What geologic principle(or law) is best displayed here?

• Superposition

• Original horizontality

• Cross-cutting relationships

• Inclusions

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4