Absolute Age Dating

Absolute Age Dating

8th Grade

15 Qs

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Absolute Age Dating

Absolute Age Dating

Assessment

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Science

8th Grade

Hard

NGSS
HS-PS1-8

Standards-aligned

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If the half-life of a radioactive group of atoms is 100 years, then how old is the rock if there 12.5% parent isotope left?

50 years

100 years

200 years

300 years

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If you had 1000 atoms of parent isotope, then how many parent atoms would you have after 3 half-lives?

75 atoms

250 atoms

500 atoms

125 atoms

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

If the half-life of a radioactive group of atoms is 100 years, then how old is the rock if there 25% parent isotope left?

50 years

100 years

200 years

300 years

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How does absolute age differ from relative age?

Only absolute dating indicates which rock is older than another

Only absolute dating finds the age in years

Only relative dating finds the age in years

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

_______________is the method of determining the absolute ages of rocks.

radiometric dating

relative dating

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

The amount of time it takes for a parent isotope to decay by half

daughter-half

half-life

life-element

quarter-life

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How many half-lives have passed if there 12.5% parent isotope left?

1 half-life

2 half-lives

3 half-lives

4 half-lives

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS1-8

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