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Fossils and Relative Dating Worksheet

This document is a worksheet about fossils and relative dating techniques. Students are asked to examine diagrams of rock layers containing fossils and answer questions to determine the relative ages of the layers and fossils. They are to use principles like original horizontality, superposition, inclusions, and cross-cutting relationships to deduce ordering and dates for when the layers were formed.

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Fossils and Relative Dating Worksheet

This document is a worksheet about fossils and relative dating techniques. Students are asked to examine diagrams of rock layers containing fossils and answer questions to determine the relative ages of the layers and fossils. They are to use principles like original horizontality, superposition, inclusions, and cross-cutting relationships to deduce ordering and dates for when the layers were formed.

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Name: __________________________________________ Date __________________ Period ________

Fossils and Relative Dating Worksheet

_____ 1. Using the diagram below, which of the following


fossils (A, B or C ) is the oldest? How do you know?

_____ 2. What is the order of the layers? Which relative dating


technique(s) did you use to figure out the order of
the layers?

Examine the following diagrams. Columns I and II contain rock layers A, B, C and D, E, F. Both columns
were taken from the same dig site.

3. Which two layers are of approximately the same age? How do you know?

4. Which layer is the oldest? How do you know?

5. Which layer is the youngest? How do you know?

6. Has any of the rock layers undergone metamorphism? How do you know?
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10.
Fossils Worksheet – Earth Science

Name: ____________________________

__C__ 7. Using the diagram below, which of the following


fossils (A, B or C ) is the oldest?

Examine the following diagrams. Columns I and II contain rock layers A, B, C and D, E, F. Both columns
were taken from the same dig site.

9. Which two layers are of approximately the same age? C & D

10. Which layer is the oldest? F

11. Which layer is the youngest? A


A
B
C

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