Absolute Dating Makeup Assignment Directions: Answer the following questions. Submit into Blackboard for credit. 1. when the actual date of an event is determined absolute dating relative dating 2. A historical method that shows width depends on the temperature and rainfall that year tree rings varve 3. A historical method that shows sediment deposited on a yearly cycle, such as a glacial lake. varve tree rings 4. A positively charged particle of matter is a proton neutron electron 5. A particle that has no charge. proton neutron electron 6. The place in the atom where alpha and beta decay is happening is the electron cloud nucleus 7. If isotopes continue to be radioactive after radioactive decay, does radioactive decay continue until a stable isotope of that original parent isotope forms? Of course!! I don’t think so. 8. Again, where in the atom is radioactive decay occurring? proton nucleus neutron 9. What is true about radiometric dating? when scientists use radioactivity and half lives of elements to measure absolute time measure how many parent/daughter isotopes within rocks/minerals, using the ratio for the age both of these none of these 10. The best way to find out how old a sample of petrified wood (225 million years old) from the Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona is by radiocarbon dating potassium-argon dating 11. In general, the best way to find an absolute age of a rock sample from the White Tanks (white schist metamorphic rock that is 35 million years old) would be potassium-argon dating uranium-lead dating 12. The best way to find the age of Picacho Peak (igneous rock that is 22 million years old) is uranium-lead dating potassium-argon dating
