Absolute Age
Quiz by Eric W. Byers (ewbyers)
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- Q1December 6th, 2018 is an example ofabsolute agegeologic timefossilsrelative age30s
- Q2My Byers is the youngest of his family is an example offossilsabsolute agerelative agegeologic time30s
- Q3Half Life is the the it takes for ______ of a sample to radioactively decay1/31/21/41/830s
- Q4The radioactive decay of material can be used to determine the age of fossils. This is calledfossil datingcomplete datingrelative datingabsolute dating30s
- Q5After 2 Half-Lives, what fraction of parent material will there be?3/41/81/21/430s
- Q6An atom that has the same number of protons but a different number of neutrons is a(n)atomic massisotopefossilnot possible30s
- Q7Due to the nature of radioactive decay, the parent material will never fully decayFALSETRUE30s
- Q8The element most often used to determine the age of rocks is an isotope ofuraniumcarbonoxygenneon30s
- Q9Which rock type can we most accurately use radioactive dating on?igneousmetamorphicsedimentary30s
- Q10A method of determining the age of an object by estimating the relative percentages of a radioactive (parent) isotope and a stable (daughter) isotopeabsolute datingrelative datingfossil datingradioactive dating30s