Eighth Grade Science
Snickers Relative Dating Activity
1. Sketch a cross-section view of your “rock”.
2. What is the oldest layer of your “rock”? How do you know?
3. What is the youngest layer of your “rock”? How do you know?
4. Which is older: the peanuts or the caramel? How do you know?
5. Is the “fault line” older or younger than the “rock layers” that it goes through? Explain.
6. Using what you know about relative dating and your answers to the questions above, draw stepby step pictures to show the sequence of steps that formed your “rock”.
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4