Relative Dating
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Play this review game to get ready for your quiz on relative dating.
Topics of this game:
- Sedimentary rocks record past geological events and ____.
- In what type of rocks would geologists most likely find evidence of past life forms?
- The geological processes that shape Earth’s features today ____.
- What scientist is credited with proposing the principle of uniformitarianism?
- The present is the key to the past. This statement rephrases the ____.
- According to the principle of cross-cutting relationships, an intrusive rock body is ____.
- Nicolaus Steno proposed the most basic principle of relative dating, the law of ____.
- The dating process that places geologic events in proper sequence is referred to as a ____.
- In general, the law of superposition states that in an undeformed sequence of sedimentary rocks, each layer is ____.
- If a layer of sandstone is in contact with a mass of granite that contains small pieces of the sandstone, which rock is older?
- An unconformity is a(n) ____.
- Fossils are the ____.
- In what type of rocks are most fossils found?
- Petrified wood is an example of what type of fossil?
- The footprints of a dinosaur are an example of what type of fossil?
- Which of the following is important if an organism is to become a fossil?
