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Folds/Faults an Geologic Dating Test Review
Folds/Faults (Chapter 11, p. 270 - 278)
1.
What is deformation? What is the major cause of deformation of the earth’s crust?
2.
Define isostatic adjustment. List 1 example of isostatic adjustment taking place
3.
Complete the table below regarding the 3 types of stress
Type of Stress
Compression
Definition
What happens to the rock
Tension
Shearing
4.
Complete the table below regarding the 3 types of folds
Type of Fold
Anticline
Picture
Definition
Syncline
Monocline
5.
Complete the chart regarding the types of faults
Name
Normal
Definition
Type of stress that caused it
Reverse
Thrust
Strike-Slip
Geologic Dating – (Chapter 8 pages 185 - 200)
6.
What is the difference between relative dating and absolute dating?
7.
What is the Principle of Uniformitarianism ?
8.
What is the Law of Superposition and why is it useful?
9.
What are the 3 types of unconformities ? Draw a picture of each type.
10. What is the Law of Crosscutting Relationships?
11. What are radioactive decay and half life?
How are they used to determine the absolute age of a rock layer?
12. What is carbon dating?
How is it used to determine the half life of wood, bone, shell, organic remains?
Why is it only used for “young” objects?
13. What is the definition of the following types of fossils?
Mummification
Amber
Tar Beds
Freezing
Petrification
Trace Fossils
Imprints
Mold
Cast
14. What are index fossils?
What criteria have to be met in order to be an index fossil?
15. What type of rock are fossils found it? Why?
16. What has to happen in order for an organism to become a fossil?
****There are no essays on this test BUT there is a diagram with rock layers and you have to order it
from youngest to oldest and give a geologic history