Chapter 8 Study Guide: Rock Record
Chapter 21 Study Guide: Rock Record
Name:______
- Review Relative Aging Lab
- Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths.
- Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
- Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
- Define index fossil
- Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating (define and know we determine each)
- Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
- Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
- Define half-life and radiometric dating
- Calculate the percent of parent and daughter elements in a half -life problem (see table on pg. 247)
Chapter 21 Study Guide: Rock Record
Name:______
- Review Relative Aging Lab
- Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths.
- Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
- Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
- Define index fossil
- Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating (define and know we determine each)
- Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
- Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
- Define half-life and radiometric dating
- Calculate the percent of parent and daughter elements in a half -life problem (see table on pg. 247)
Chapter 21 Study Guide: Rock Record
Name:______
- Review Relative Aging Lab
- Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths.
- Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
- Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
- Define index fossil
- Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating (define and know we determine each)
- Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
- Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
- Define half-life and radiometric dating
- Calculate the percent of parent and daughter elements in a half -life problem (see table on pg. 247)
Chapter 21 Study Guide: Rock Record
Name:______
- Review Relative Aging Lab
- Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths.
- Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
- Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
- Define index fossil
- Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating (define and know we determine each)
- Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
- Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
- Define half-life and radiometric dating
- Calculate the percent of parent and daughter elements in a half -life problem (see table on pg. 247)
Chapter 8 Study Guide: Rock Record
Name:______
- Review Relative Aging Lab
- Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths
- Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
- Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
- Define index fossil, trace fossil, and paleontology
- Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating
- Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
- Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
- Know the name of the force that causes rocks to form in flat layers
- Know what type of rock most fossils are found in and why
- Describe the climate needed for mummification to be successful
- Be able to identify a nonconformity of a rock layer picture
- Understand what is needed for a fossil to form