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    This document provides a review of key concepts in geology including uniformitarianism, relative dating, cross-cutting relationships, the law of superposition, unconformities, index fossils, half-lives, radiometric dating, the accepted age of the Earth, the Precambrian era, the lack of oxygen in the early atmosphere, the dominance of life in oceans during the Paleozoic and dinosaurs during the Mesozoic, the mass extinction at the end of the Mesozoic caused by an meteorite impact, and the appropriate uses of radiocarbon dating.

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    UNIT 6 REVIEW

    A R E YO U R E A DY F O R T H E F I N A L ?
    WHAT IS UNIFORMITARIANISM?

    States that the laws that operate today have


    also operated in the geologic past
    Credited to James Hutton
    IN A CROSS-CUTTING RELATIONSHIP, IS THE INTRUSIVE
    ROCK OLDER OR YOUNGER?

    Younger
    WHAT IS RELATIVE DATING?

    Places events in proper sequence (does not give us an


    exact date)
    WHAT IS THE LAW OF
    SUPERPOSITION?
    States that in an undisturbed sequence of rock.
    The oldest rock is always on bottom.
    WHAT IS AN UNCONFORMITY?

    When a piece of the rock record has been


    removed by erosion.
    WHAT TWO FACTORS ARE IMPORTANT FOR MAKING A
    FOSSIL?

    Possession of hard parts


    Rapid Burial
    WHAT IS AN INDEX FOSSIL?

    A group of fossils that can be used to correlate rock


    layers
    A fossil that is widespread and lived for a short period
    of time
    A fossil that can be used to help identify rock age
    WHAT IS A HALF-LIFE?

    The time it takes for of a sample to decay to its


    stable isotope
    ASSUME YOU BEGAN WITH 10G OF A RADIOACTIVE PARENT ISOTOPE. HOW
    MANY GRAMS OF PARENT ISOTOPE WILL BE PRESENT IN THE SAMPLE AFTER 2
    HALF-LIVES?

    2.5 G
    WHAT FRACTION OF THE ORIGINAL PARENT ISOTOPE
    STILL EXISTS AFTER 4 HALF-LIVES HAVE PASSED?

    6.25%
    WHAT IS THE ACCEPTED AGE OF THE EARTH?

    4.5 Billion Years


    MOST OF EARTHS HISTORY IS CONTAINED IN WHICH ERA?

    Precambrian
    WHY DOESNT RADIOMETRIC DATING WORK WITH
    SEDIMENTARY ROCK?

    They are made from sediments (pieces) of older


    parent rocks
    WHAT GAS WASNT A PART OF THE ORIGINAL
    ATMOSPHERE?

    Oxygen (photosynthetic prokaryotes helped with that


    process)
    WHERE WAS MOST OF LIFE FOUND DURING THE EARLY
    PALEOZOIC?

    Oceans
    WHAT ANIMAL DOMINATED THE MESOZOIC?

    Dinosaurs
    WHAT MARKED THE MASS EXTINCTION AT THE END OF THE
    MESOZOIC?

    Meteorite
    WHAT IS THE OLDEST LAYER IN THE FOLLOWING PICTURE?

    I
    WHAT IS THE YOUNGEST LAYER IN THE FOLLOWING
    PICTURE?

    R
    RADIOCARBON DATING COULD BE USED TO DATE WHICH OF
    THE FOLLOWING?

    a. 65-million-year-old c. 60,000-year-old
    meteorite metamorphic rock

    b. 15-million-year-old d. 60,000-year-old
    lava flow mammoth bone

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