Monday, December 9, 2013

Earth Science 2 Unit 4 Day 4

Day Starter
Objective: Students will explore evidence of geological time using the words index fossil, trace fossil, superposition, uniformitarianism, original horizontality, carbon-14 dating.

Question
1) What is an geological era? Give an example.
2) What geological era and period are we currently in?
3) Order the following from smallest to largest division: epoch, era, eon, period.

Exit Ticket:
What evidence is used to determine the age of Earth? Use the following sentence starter, "The geological age of Earth can be determined..." and at least 1 of the green words from the objective to write a perfect 3 sentence paragraph (topic+2 details).