Absolute Dating

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6th - 8th Grade

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HS-PS1-8, MS-ESS1-4

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Absolute Dating

Multiple Choice

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

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to figure out the exact age of an igneous rock, what technique would you use?

Relative Dating

Potassium-Argon Dating

Carbon-14 Dating

Law of Superposition

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to find the exact age of Mars, which of the following radiometric methods would you use?

Carbon-14 Dating

Uranium-Lead Dating

Potassium-Argon Dating

Multiple Choice

If you wanted to figure out the exact age of a fossil that is less than 40,000 years old, what technique would you use?

Carbon-14 Dating

Potassium-Argon Dating

Relative Dating

You Can't. It is not possible

Multiple Choice

If you were looking to find the exact age of a fossil that is at least 1 million years old, what technique would you use?

Carbon-14 Dating

Potassium-Argon dating on the igneous intrusions or extrusions near the fossil

Relative Dating without an index fossil present

Uranium-Lead Dating on igneous rocks near the fossil

Multiple Choice

The time it takes for 50% of the nuclei in a radioactive sample to decay to its stable isotope is called _____.

the daughter product

geologic time

the half-life

the half-time

Multiple Choice

The original element that undergoes radioactive decay is known as the...

daughter element

half-life

parent element

carbon-14

Multiple Choice

If the half-life of a radioactive group of atoms is 100 years, then how old is the rock if there have been two half-lives?

25 years

200 years

400 years

800 years

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