EES Quiz 4/17 or 4/18

Geologic Time Name: ______________________________ Geologic Time Review- Chapter 8 & 9

Vocabulary to Know:
Uniformitarianism Relative age Law of superposition Unconformity Principle of inclusion Law of Original Horizontality Law of crosscutting relations Law of Faunal Succession Questions to Answer: Absolute age Varve Radiometric dating Half-life Fossil Paleontology Index fossil Mummification Amber Tar seeps Freezing Petrification Imprints Molds Casts Coprolites gastroliths Geologic column Era Period Epoch Evolution Mass extinction

1. Who was James Hutton? (Chapter 8.1 and Powerpoint)

2. State the principle of uniformitarianism. (Chapter 8.1 and Powerpoint)

3. Why is it important for scientists to be able to determine the relative age of rocks? (Chapter 8.1 and Powerpoint)

4. Identify the following as absolute or relative ages: a. Bob is older than Jane: _______________ b. The Cretaceous period ended 67 million years ago: _________________ c. Ammonite fossils are younger than Trilobite fossils: ________________ d. Using radio-carbon dating we found bipedal remains 2.5 million years old: _________ 5. Explain the following in your own words- (Chapter 8.1 and Powerpoint) a. Law of Superposition: b. Principle of Original Horizontality: c. Principle of Cross-Cutting Relationship: d. Principle of Inclusion:

EES Quiz 4/17 or 4/18 e. Law of Faunal Succession:

Geologic Time Name: ______________________________

6. What is the difference between an unconformity and a nonconformity? (Chapter 8.1 and Powerpoint)

7. How is radiometric dating used to estimate absolute age? (Chapter 8.2 and Powerpoint)

8. What is half-life and explain how it helps determine an objects absolute age. (Chapter 8.2 and Powerpoint)

9. Absolute Dating Practice: (show your work) a. Gold 198 has a half life of 2.5 days. How much of a 100.0 g sample is left after 10 days?

b. An element has a half-life of 1.2 million years. What fraction of parent element is left after 4.8 million years? c. Suppose you found a sharks tooth that you suspect it to be over 17,000 years old. If you used C-14 dating techniques, what percent of the parent material should be present in order to confirm this age?

10. What are the limitations of using rates of erosion and deposition to determine the absolute age of rock formations? (Chapter 8.2 and Powerpoint)

EES Quiz 4/17 or 4/18

Geologic Time Name: ______________________________

11. Describe four ways an entire organism can be preserved as a fossil. (Chapter 8.2 and Powerpoint)

12. What are index fossils and how are they used by geologists? (Chapter 8.3 and Powerpoint)

13. List four types of fossils that can be used to provide indirect evidence of organisms. (Chapter 8.3 and Powerpoint)

14.Put the layers in order for the rock formation that is on the lower right hand corner of page 203 in your text book.

15.Know (memorize) the major eras and some of the key events that happened in each one. This is the chapter 9 notes that you took!

16. Understand the scale of geologic time. (Ideas and concepts from the geologic time project.)