EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE Q1-WK 5.c PDF
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE Q1-WK 5.c PDF
EARTH AND LIFE SCIENCE Q1-WK 5.c PDF
DATING
for EARTH and LIFE SCIENCE – Senior
High School
Quarter 1/ Week 5.c
FOREWORD
In this learning kit you will be able to know how the age of a
fossil is determined and what principles are used to determine the
age of a rock and a particular fossil.
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Activities and post evaluation are included to make learning
more fun and exciting.
Hence, this leaning kit will be your aid as you embark new
scientific words, ideas and enrich your existing knowledge about
scientific concepts.
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LEARNING COMPTENCIES:
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I. WHAT HAPPENED
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II. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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each layer of rock is older than the layer above it and younger than
the rock layer below it.
https://imnh.iri.isu.edu/exhibits/online/geo_time/g
eo_principles.htm
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F. Principle of Inclusions:
When one rock formation
contains pieces or inclusions
of another rock, the included
rock is older than the host
rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQ-l6X6MMk
G. Principle of Fossil Succession:
Evolution has produced a succession of unique fossils that
correlate to the units of the geologic time scale.
Assemblages of fossils contained in strata are unique to the
time they lived and can be used to correlate rocks of the
same age across a wide geographic distribution.
Assemblages of fossils refer to groups of several unique
fossils occurring together.
https://imnh.iri.isu.edu/exhibits/online/geo_time/geo_principles.htm#faunal
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Activity 1.1. Apply the principles in determining the age of the rock
using relative dating method.
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Relative dating principles was how scientists interpreted Earth
history until the end of the 19th Century. Because science advances
as technology advances, the discovery of radioactivity in the late
1800s provided scientists with a new scientific tool called radioisotopic
dating. Using this new technology, they could assign specific time
units, in this case years, to mineral grains within a rock. These numerical
values are not dependent on comparisons with other rocks such as
with relative dating, so this dating method is called absolute dating. In
other words, absolute dating is determining the actual age of an
event or object in years. It is like saying, you are 17 years old and your
granny is 67 years old. With absolute age dating, you get a real age
in actual years.
There are several types of absolute dating but let us focus few of
the common methods here.
Index fossils are fossils used to estimate the absolute age of the
rock layers in which they are found. Once the absolute age of an
index fossil is known, it can be used to determine the age of rock layers
containing the same fossil anywhere on Earth.
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Here are some characteristics of an index fossil:
ü The organism from which it formed must have lived during a
other fossils.
Some of the common index fossils are presented in
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Ø Radioactive Decay and Half life
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Ø Radiocarbon dating is a
method used for dating wood,
bones, shells, and other organic
remains. All living things have a
constant ratio of radioactive
carbon-14 to carbon-12. Once a
plant or an animal dies, no more
carbon is taken in. The ratio
between the isotopes changes
because carbon-14 undergoes
radioactive decay. Radiocarbon
dating can be used to date
organic matter only. This method is
used to date things that lived in
https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Furman_University/CHM1
the last 45,000 years. 01%3A_Chemistry_and_Global_Awareness_(Gordon)/05%3A_B
asics_of_Nuclear_Science/5.07%3A_Calculating_Half-Life
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III. WHAT I HAVE LEARNED
Part 1. Identification.
Directions. Study how to determine the relative age of rock
diagram below. List the rock layers in order at the bottom of the
diagram on the lines provided from most recent at the top to
the oldest at the bottom.
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Part 2. Short answer.
Directions. Write your own understanding in 3-4 sentences
of the following terms. You will be rated using the rubric
provided.
1. Absolute dating
2. Principle of Superposition
3. Radiocarbon dating
4. Index fossils
5. Principle of Original Horizontality
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REFERENCES
Chris Johnson, Matthew D. Affolter, Paul Inkenbrandt, & Cam Mosher. n.d. Geosciences Libretext.
Accessed August 5, 2020.
https://geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Geology/Book%3A_An_Introduction_to_Geology_(Johns
on_Affolter_Inkenbrandt_and_Mosher)/07%3A_Geologic_Time/7.02%3A_Absolute_Dating.
n.d. Science Learning Hub Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao. Accessed August 5, 2020.
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/1486-absolute-
dating#:~:text=Geologists%20often%20need%20to%20know,geological%20events%20in%20tim
e%20order.
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SYNOPSIS AND ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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