Unraveling the Geologic Mysteries of Earth's History through Dating Methods

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Delve into the fascinating world of Earth's history and dating techniques with images and puzzles exploring concepts like relative dating using the Law of Superposition, geological layer sequencing, and absolute dating through half-life principles. Learn how scientists decipher the age of the Earth and life's history by piecing together clues from rocks and fossils.


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  1. Age of the Earth Life's History

  2. How do we know??

  3. Relative Dating uses the Law of Superposition

  4. Open a Word document or take out a sheet of paper. You will be solving several geological puzzles. Try to figure out the order that that the Earth's layers were laid down in each puzzle.

  5. Let's Practice first: Someone took the last cookie in the cookie jar last night. The last person to leave the scene is the culprit. Who was it?? Clues: The Butler walks to work. The Handyman rides a bike. The cook rides a motorcycle. The maid drives a car. The nephew has a seeing-eye dog.

  6. Place rocks from oldest to newest

  7. How about this one?

  8. One more!

  9. Absolute Dating How does it work? A little more Half-life stuff

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