Vocab tic-tac-toe
Across
- 2. The time it takes for a radioactive substance to decay to half of its original amount.
- 3. A scientific method used to determine the age of an object containing organic material by analyzing the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.
- 4. States that within a sequence of layers of sedimentary rock, the oldest layer is at the base and that the layers are progressively younger with ascending order in the sequence.
- 7. Method used to determine the age of rocks, fossils, and other geological features by comparing them to one another.
- 9. The age of a geologic phenomenon measured in present Earth years, rather than its age relative to other geologic phenomena.
Down
- 1. A radiometric dating technique that compares two isotopes of uranium in a sample.
- 5. The remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock.
- 6. The process by which an unstable atomic nucleus loses energy by radiation.
- 8. Refers to the representation of time based on the rock record of Earth.