Relative Dating Webquest
Directions: Use the following webquest to answer the questions.
http://relativedatingwebquest.weebly.com
1. Describe relative dating in your own words.
2. What principle determines what rock layers were deposited first, next, last, etc?
3. What principle helps determine that if a rock is intruded with magma that the rock is older
than the magma?
4. What organism is the oldest fossil?
5. What could you tell me about the changes of organisms overtime by using this diagram?
(Complete sentence.)
6. List the geologic time "periods" (they are not all periods) in order from oldest to most recent.
7. Put the fossils of the organism in order from youngest to oldest (use the numbers provided for
each).
8. What was deposited first, the sandstone or the shale?
9. Write the order of the rock layers labeled with a name from oldest to youngest.
10. Write the order of all the layers (A, B, C, & D) in order from oldest to youngest AND describe
why you put them in this order. (You will need to use the principle of cross-cutting features
found on page one.)