2. Geologic Time
Scale

3. Fossils

4. The Dating Game

5. True or False

6. Rock & Roll

7. Grab Bag

8. Geologic
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Dating
Game
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Rock &
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Fossils
Grab Bag
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9. First life form (cyanobacteria) What is Precambrian Time?
Geologic Time Scale - 100
First life form (cyanobacteria)
appeared in this time…
What is Precambrian Time?

10. The Earth is believed to be billion years old.
Geologic Time Scale - 200
The Earth is believed to be billion years old.
What is 4.6?

11. Earth’s history broken down into smaller units is known as…
Geologic Time Scale - 300
Earth’s history broken down into smaller units is known as…
What is Geologic Time Scale?

12. Plate tectonics in this era resulted in the distribution of organisms…
Geologic Time Scale - 400
Plate tectonics in this era resulted
in the distribution of organisms…
What is Mesozoic?

13. These 2 events made it possible for
Geologic Time Scale - 500
These 2 events made it possible for
single cell organisms to develop into
more complex organisms…
What is oxygen & ozone?

14. Fossils are remains, imprints or traces of once-living .
What are organisms (or things)?

15. What is petrified remains?
Fossils - 200
Some or all of the organisms original tissue has been replaced with minerals.
What is petrified remains?

16. Type of fossil where actual organism
Fossils - 300
Type of fossil where actual organism
is found preserved in amber, frozen in ice or trapped in tar.
What is original remains?

17. Fossils - 400
This type of fossil organism lived for a short period of geologic time, is wide spread, easy to identify and there were a lot of them.
What is an Index Fossil?

18. Three important conditions for What is having hard parts?
Fossils - 500
Three important conditions for
a fossil to form are 1) buried quickly 2) not exposed to extreme heat and pressure and …
What is having hard parts?

19. The Dating Game - 100
If you can’t find the absolute age of a fossil you can find the absolute age of the that it is found in.
What is rock?

20. This law states that in sedimentary
The Dating Game - 200
This law states that in sedimentary
rock, the oldest layer is on bottom
and the youngest layer is on top.
What is the Law of Superposition?

21. What is Absolute Dating?
The Dating Game - 300
Method used to determine the age of a rock. This process uses atoms (isotopes) in rocks to find their exact age.
What is Absolute Dating?

22. What is Law of Cross-Cutting Relationship?
The Dating Game - 400
One of the relative dating principles It says that a fault or igneous rock intrusion is younger than the rock it cuts through.
What is Law of Cross-Cutting Relationship?

23. Process used to determine the absolute ages of rocks by measuring
The Dating Game - 500
Process used to determine the
absolute ages of rocks by measuring
the amount of parent material and
daughter material in the rock,
and knowing the half-life of
the parent.
What is Radiometric Dating?

24. What is False? (Devonian period)
True or False - 100
Fish were dominant in the Cambrian period of the Paleozoic Era.
What is False? (Devonian period)

25. At the end of the Paleozoic Era Pangaea came together changing
True or False - 200
At the end of the Paleozoic Era
Pangaea came together changing
the environment. This caused a 90% mass extinction of mammals.
What is False?
(marine organisms - mammals didn’t exist yet)

26. True or False - 300
Catastrophic events can drastically effect the Earth’s surface and the organisms living at the time.
What is True?

27. True or False - 400
Some scientists believe that dinosaurs became extinct due to a meteor event which caused a major change
in the Earth’s climate.
What is True?

28. All the earth’s tectonic plates move an average of 1 centimeter
True or False - 500
All the earth’s tectonic plates
move an average of 1 centimeter
per year.
What is False? (the average is 2-5cm)

29. Rock & Roll - 100
Processes by which water dissolves minerals, creating a natural glue, causing sediments to stick together.
What is cementation?

30. Processes by which rocks change into
Rock & Roll - 200
Processes by which rocks change into
other rocks.
What is the Rock Cycle?

31. The movement of weathered material.
Rock & Roll - 300
The movement of weathered material.
What is erosion?

32. When lava & magma cool it becomes
Rock & Roll - 400
When lava & magma cool it becomes
this type of rock.
What is Igneous Rock?

33. Rock & Roll - 500
Name the geologic principles you would use to put the following events in age order.
What are the law of superposition and the law of cross cutting relationships?

34. This forms when tectonic plates move away from each other.
Grab Bag - 100
This forms when tectonic plates move away from each other.
What is new ocean floor or
continental crust?

35. Plate tectonics can result in a change in _______.
Grab Bag - 200
Plate tectonics can result in a change in _______.
What is climate?

36. The name of the super continent
Grab Bag - 300
The name of the super continent
shown here.
What is Pangaea?

37. What is Uniformitarianism?
Grab Bag - 400
Theory that the Earth’s surface changes slowly over long periods of time (and is still changing today).
What is Uniformitarianism?

38. What is the age order of these
Grab Bag - 500
What is the age order of these
rocks and events from
OLDEST TO YOUNGEST?
What is D, C, B, A, Folding, E?

39. Daily Double