module e

Question 1

what is chronology?

Answer 1

locating and arranging events in time

Question 2

true or false: dating does not help us fully reconstruct past environments

Answer 2

true

Question 3

true or false: reconstructing past environments from proxies is called dating

Answer 3

false

Question 4

what is relative dating?

Answer 4

x is younger/older/same age as y

Question 5

what is absolute dating?

Answer 5

assigning date to a specific event or object

Question 6

current radiometric estimates the earth is how many years old?

Answer 6

4.543 billion years

Question 7

the three age system includes which stages?

Answer 7

stone objects, iron objects, and bronze objects

Question 8

what is typology?

Answer 8

grouping of objects by their characteristics

Question 9

what is seriation?

Answer 9

chronological ordering of objects by their level of development

Question 10

what is the tissue that trees create?

Answer 10

xylem

Question 11

what is the purpose of xylem?

Answer 11

carries water throughout the tree

Question 12

the width of each tree ring is measured by…

Answer 12

the conditions under which the tree grew that year

Question 13

in ireland, which tree is most useful for building a tree ring chronology?

Answer 13

oak trees

Question 14

what is primary replication?

Answer 14

matching ring patterns from any one site

Question 15

what is secondary replication?

Answer 15

matching rings from independent site chronologies

Question 16

what is tertiary replication?

Answer 16

master ring chronologies confirmed from matching with other master chronologies