Questions :
1. What time interval is shown as the oldest and what is the youngest one?
2. What year did Neal Armstrong walk on the Moon?
3. What does the suffix -zoic (as in Cenozoic) mean?
4. What is the most obvious feature of sedimentary rocks?
5. What major life forms existed in the pre-Archean eon?
6. What dominates the great bulk of the fossil record?
7. According to the chart on fossil succession, when did pine trees begin to appear?
8. If two rocks from different regions of the Earth contain the same kind of fossils, what do we know?
9. What were Darwin's four processes for "causing" evolution?
10. What is an index fossil?
11. What is the useful range of radiometric dating using the radioactive isotope potassium-40?
(Enchanted Learning)
12. What is permineralization and what is another name for permineralization?
13. Why did some dinosaurs not form fossils?
14. What are fossils rock-colored?
15. What is an example of a trace fossil?
16. Why are more footprints found belonging to meat eating dinosaurs than those belonging to plant eating dinosaurs?
17. What is a coprolite? What information can they give the scientist?
(psuedofossils)
18. What are the most common pseudofossils?
19. What type of formation you would find in the Fayetteville Formation in northern Arkansas?
20. How are the 'turtle rocks' created?
21. How are the 'carpet rocks' created?
(Mastering Geology - GEODe-Relative Dating)
22. In what year was plate tectonics formally proposed?
23. What is relative dating?
24. What is the law of superposition?
25. In Frame 6, what is the name of the oldest rock layer?
26. In Frame 7, what is the name of the youngest feature?
27. In Frame 9, what is the name of the youngest feature?
28. In Frame 10, did the fault occur before or after the dike was formed?
29. Answer the questions in each of Frames 11-16. Write the answers below.
30. What is the principle of original horizontality?
31. What is conformable?
32. What is an unconformity?
33. In Frame 23, between what groups does an angular unconformity exist?
34. In Frame 27, what is the proper sequence of events?
(Mastering Geology - GEODe-Dating with Radioactivity)
35. What information does the atomic number give?
36. Why do some nuclei undergo radioactive decay?
37. Answer the question in Frame 27. Write the answer below
38. How are numerical dates for sedimentary layers usually determined?
39. Answer the questions in Frames 44-46. Write the answers.
Attachment:- Geological Time, Fossils, and Dating.rar