Geology Ch. 9 test dives deeper into the analysis of the different properties and minerals in regard to rocks and earth particles. How well have you understood the chapter? Take up the quiz and find out.
Fault or fracture with older rocks above and younger rocks below
Surface of erosion separating younger strata above from older strata below
Surface of erosion with older strata above and younger strata below
Fault or fracture with younger strata above and older strata below
Iron
Argon
Strontium
Lead
Tilted strata lie below the unconformity; bedding in younger strata above is parallel to the unconformity.
Horizontal lava flows lie below the unconformity and horizontal, sedimentary strata lie above.
The discordant boundary between older strata and an intrusive body of granite.
Tilted strata lie below the unconformity with loose, unconsolidated soil above.
U-238
K40
Rb-87
C-14
less than l
More than 3
Between l and 2
Between 2 and 3
Life; living things
Rocks; lithified strata
) time; recording of events
Places; geographic references
Triassic; Jurassic
Cambrian; Ordovician
Permian; Pennsylvanian
Mississippian; Pennsylvanian
Inclusions of sandstone in a granite pluton
A well-exposed dike of basalt in sandstone
The feldspar and quartz contents of a granite
An unconformity between a granite and sandstone
Law of original correlation
Theory of correlative deposition
Law of superposition
Theory of superstition
Super matching
Correlation
Strata indexing
Cross-access dating
Principle of cross correlation
Law of fossil regression
Law of correlative indexing
Principle of faunal succession
The organism lived only in specific environments such as beaches or estuaries
The organism only lived for a short period of geologic time
The fossils are exceptionally abundant and well preserved
The fossils occur in deep-water marine sediments, but the organism actually lived in the sunlit, surface layer of the ocean
Xenon-143
Carbon-14
Radon-222
Argon-40
Replacement
Petrification
Carbonization
Impression
6 billion years
54 million years
540 million years
65.4 million years
Poisoning of primitive algae in the Hadean and Archean eons
Extinction of the woolly mammoths in late Pleistocene time
Disappearance of Neanderthal man during the early Cenozoic era
Extinction of the dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous Period
6.4 billion years
4.5 million years
4.5 billion years
6.4 million years
The atomic number of the daughter isotope is one more than the parent; the mass numbers are the same.
The mass number of the daughter isotope is one more than the parent and both isotopes have the same atomic number.
The daughter isotope has an atomic number two less than the parent and a mass number four less.
The daughter isotope has an atomic number one less than the parent and a mass number two less.
More than one-half
Between one-fourth and one-eighth
Between one-half and one-fourth
Between one-half and one-third
Bed 5 is the oldest
Beds l and 3 are older than bed 4
Bed 4 is older than bed 2
Bed 3 is older than beds 2 and 4
Eon, era, epoch, period
Era, period, epoch, eon
Eon, epoch, period, era
Eon, era, period, epoch
One ten-thousandth
One millionth
One billionth
One hundred-thousandth
Combines with a neutron in the nucleus, raising the mass number of the daughter isotope by one
Combines with a proton in the nucleus; the atomic number of the daughter is one less than the parent
Makes the parent isotope into an ion with a charge of negative one
Makes the daughter isotope into an ion with a charge of positive one
Cosmic ray collisions and neutron-capture involving atmospheric nitrogen
Leakage of radioactive gases from the liquid, outer core
Fusion of hydrogen and helium in the Sun and eruption of solar flares
Nuclear fission of the heavy, radioactive elements uranium and thorium
An angular unconformity
Inverse bedding
A disconformity
Cross cutting
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