Grade 6,Class Science, Chapter 3

Question 1

Relative dating is..

Answer 1

Relative dating is a method of putting events in order in which they happened

Question 2

Relationships does not try to determine the exact age of an object but instead….

Answer 2

Instead of which the events they happened

Question 3

Oringinal horizontality is when …

Answer 3

Sediment perticalls that fall to the bottom of water in response of gravity

Question 4

Lateral Continuitiy is ….

Answer 4

Lateral Continuity is the idea that when layers of sediments are formed they extend in all the directions horizontally

Question 5

Cross cutting relationship states that a vein of a rock cuts across a rocks layer is…..

Answer 5

The vein is the youngest part of the rock

Question 6

How are rock inclusion formed..

Answer 6

Rock inclusions are formed melted rock surrounded the inclusion and then solidified

Question 7

Faunul succession mean that….

Answer 7

Faunul succession means that fossils can be used to identify the relative age of the layers of a rock foundation

Question 8

Geologic time divided into…

Answer 8

Geoglic time is divided into eras and periods

Question 9

During the Precumbian era layers of rock formed the Grand Canyon and only single celled …..

Answer 9

During the Precambian era layers of rock formed the Grand Canyon and only single celled organisms lived on Earths

Question 10

How many eras are there? Which is bigger?

Answer 10

There are 4 eras. The biggest one is the Paleozoc era

Question 11

Radioactive decay refers to_____. As a result of radioactive decays an ______. An element is______

Answer 11

Radioactive decay refers to how unstable atoms was discovered. As a result of radioactive decays an element. An element is a sustance composed of only one kind of atom

Question 12

Scientists know that it takes us billion years for one half of urainium atoms in a specium to turn into lead

Answer 12

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Scientists know that it takes us billion years for one half of urainium atoms in a specium to turn into lead

Question 13

Dendrochronolog is…..

Answer 13

Dendrochronolog is tree ring dating

Question 14

Elevation means….

Answer 14

Elevation is the height of an objets measured from a reference level

Question 15

Scale of a map helps you…

Answer 15

A scale of a map helps you relater the small distance on the map to the larger real life distance

Question 16

Topographic map helps use special lines called____ to show ____

Answer 16

called contour line to show mountains and other land features

Question 17

Contour lines indicate…

Answer 17

Contour lines indicate all points where the elevation is the same

Question 18

A bathymetric map shows….

Answer 18

Shows the dephs of a body of water such as a lake or ocean

Question 19

The prime meridian is….

Answer 19

Is an imaginary line that goes threw Grenich, England and is perpandiculer to the equator

Question 20

Longititude is…

Answer 20

goes from north to south

Question 21

Ladtitude is..

Answer 21

goes from east to west