Chapter 21 Study Guide: Rock Record

Name:______

  1. Review Relative Aging Lab
  2. Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths.
  3. Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
  4. Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
  5. Define index fossil
  6. Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating (define and know we determine each)
  7. Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
  8. Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
  9. Define half-life and radiometric dating
  10. 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:______

  1. Review Relative Aging Lab
  2. Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths.
  3. Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
  4. Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
  5. Define index fossil
  6. Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating (define and know we determine each)
  7. Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
  8. Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
  9. Define half-life and radiometric dating
  10. 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:______

  1. Review Relative Aging Lab
  2. Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths.
  3. Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
  4. Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
  5. Define index fossil
  6. Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating (define and know we determine each)
  7. Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
  8. Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
  9. Define half-life and radiometric dating
  10. 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:______

  1. Review Relative Aging Lab
  2. Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths.
  3. Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
  4. Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
  5. Define index fossil
  6. Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating (define and know we determine each)
  7. Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
  8. Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
  9. Define half-life and radiometric dating
  10. 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:______

  1. Review Relative Aging Lab
  2. Define and identify mummification, amber, freezing, petrifaction, imprints, molds and casts, coprolite, and gastroliths
  3. Know the names of the two “Founders of Modern Geology”
  4. Know the four criteria for something to be an index fossil
  5. Define index fossil, trace fossil, and paleontology
  6. Differentiate between relative and absolute age/dating
  7. Define the Law of Superposition, Law of Crosscutting Relationships, Principle of Original Horizontality, and Principle of Uniformitarianism.
  8. Be able to apply the Law of Superposition and the Law of Crosscutting Relationships to identify the order in which layers or events happened
  9. Know the name of the force that causes rocks to form in flat layers
  10. Know what type of rock most fossils are found in and why
  11. Describe the climate needed for mummification to be successful
  12. Be able to identify a nonconformity of a rock layer picture
  13. Understand what is needed for a fossil to form