1) Any method of measuring the age of an object or event in years? a) Relative Dating b) Absolute Dating c) Law of Superposition 2) A fossil known to have lived in a particular geologic age that can be used to date the rock layer in which it is found? a) Index Fossil b) Unconformity c) Geology 3) The process of measuring the absolute age of geologic material by measuring the concentrations of radioactive isotopes and their decay products? a) Relative Dating b) Absolute Dating c) Radiometric Dating 4) Fossils that provide patterns of evolutionary change from the early ancestors to modern life forms? a) Ice Core b) Index Fossils c) Transitional Fossils 5) A long cylinder of ice obtained from drilling through ice caps or ice sheets; used to study past climates? a) Cast Fossils b) Ice Core c) Geology 6) A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface? a) Igneous b) Igneous Intrusion c) Metamorphic 7) Magma cutting through formed layers of sedimentary rock that then cools and hardens? a) Igneous Intrusion b) Igneous c) Sedimentary 8) Rocks that undergo a physical change due to extreme heat and pressure? a) Lithosphere b) Sedimentary c) Metamorphic 9) Rock formed when layers of sediments were pressed and cemented together? a) Lithosphere b) Sedimentary c) Deposition 10) A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust? a) Igneous b) Geology c) Lithosphere

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