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EASC 205 Radioactive Dating Game Lab (due 2.29.20)
Purpose: Students will use the radioactive decay rate and original-daughter element ratios of Carbon-14
and Uranium-238 to determine the ages of different objects.
Materials: Computer with Radioactive Dating Game. Can use web site:
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Radioactive_Dating_Game
Procedure:
1. Start computer and go to internet. Find web site.
2. Click on tab for Decay Rates. Check Carbon-14.
3. The half-life for Carbon-14 is _________ years.
4. The half-life for Uranium-238 is ______________ years.
5. Place 1000 C-14 atoms onto screen. Start decay.
a. Stop decay at one half-life. How many Carbon-14 atoms remain? _______
b. After 2 half-lives, how many Carbon-14 atoms remain? ________
c. After 3 half-lives, how many Carbon-14 atoms remain? ________
6. Click on tab for Dating Game. Start measurements with living and dead objects on or just under
the surface of the Earth. With these objects use Carbon-14 for measurements. Record guesses
and measured ages. Ancient fossils will have no Carbon-14. You must use the ages of rocks
(from Uranium-238) in the same rock layer as the fossils to determine the fossil’s age.
7. Switch to Uranium-238. Now make guesses and measure the ages of the rocks. Record answers.
Data: Radiometric Ages for Various Objects
Object Carbon-14 Uranium-238 % of Original Guessed Age Measured Age
Animal Skull
Living Tree
Distant Living
Tree
House
Dead Tree
Bone
Wooden Cup
1
st
human skull
2
nd
human skull
Fish Bones
Fish Fossil 1
Rock 1
Dinosaur Skull
Rock 2
Trilobite
Rock 3
Rock 4
Rock 5
Conclusion: Write out a technical lab report as depicted on Syllabus and should capture among other
details: “What you did; a summary of your results; and, what you learned.”
http://phet.colorado.edu/simulations/sims.php?sim=Radioactive_Dating_Game
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OBJECTIVES:
Correctly define: principle of uniformitarianism, correlation, outcrop, index fossils, anomalies,
unconformity, isotopes, outgassing, principle of superposition
GEOLOGIC TIME:
• Explain that humans and dinosaurs never lived at the same time.
• Use the Earth Science Reference Tables to correctly place events on a geologic time line.
• Use the Earth Science Reference Tables to identify where in NY State rocks containing fossils would be
likely to be found and not found.
RELATIVE AGE:
• Determine the relative age of rock layers based on the following criteria:
• principle of superposition—oldest rock layers on bottom
• intrusions are younger than the rocks they cut through
• faults and folds are younger than the rocks they cut through
• Determine the relative age of an igneous intrusion/extrusion based on evidence of contact metamorphism.
• Explain what an unconformity is and why it is important in dating rock layers.
• Correlate rock layers based on index fossil evidence.
ABSOLUTE AGE:
• Explain how radioactive elements can be used to calculate the absolute age of a rock layer.
• Explain why radioactive isotopes are reliable to calculate absolute age.
• Calculate the absolute age of a rock based on radioactive decay data.
• Identify C14 as the radioactive isotope useful in determining the absolute age of organic materials
THEORY OF EVOLUTION:
• Explain the theory of evolution.
•
Explain how the fossil record supports this theory.
Name:
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Anomalies:
Correlation:
Index Fossils:
Isotopes:
Outcrop:
Outgassing:
Principle of Superposition:
Principle of Uniformitarianism:
Unconformity:
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Fossils can only be found in _________________________________ rocks.
Why is this statement false: “The caveman had dinosaur for breakfast.”?
Name the primary way that geologists find the absolute and relative ages of rock layers.
absolute age: ___________________________________
relative age: ____________________________________
Be able to answer these types of questions:
1. Approximately how many million years ago did the earliest amphibians appear?
2. Approximately how many million years ago was the initial opening of the Atlantic Ocean?
3. During which era did the earliest fish appear?
4. During which epoch did large carnivores appear?
5. Of the following rocks which would be most likely to contain fossils?
a. rhyolite b. basalt c. metaconglomerate d. limestone
6. At Binghamton, NY what is age of the bedrock?
7. How does the age of the bedrock at Old Forge compare with that at Jamestown?
8. Name a location in NY State where you may be able to find bedrock which was formed at the peak of
the eurypterid’s development.
9. Why would fossils be unlikely to be found in quartzite?
10. For each of the following locations in NY State below, identify whether fossils would be likely or
unlikely to be found:
Old Forge:
Binghamton:
Albany:
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If a sedimentary rock outcrop has not been overturned, which layer would be the oldest? What is this
principle known as?
Using the principle above, label the strata below from oldest to youngest.
Faults are always (older, younger) than the rocks they cut through.
Which is older:
F or S:
How do you know?
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If a geologist finds an igneous sill, how can she determine if the sill is an intrusion or an extrusion?
What is an unconformity? How does it complicate the
relative dating of rock layers?
What processes could lead to an
unconformity?
Is “H” an intrusion or extrusion?
How can you tell?
Using the diagram to the
left, identify where the
unconformity is located by
drawing an arrow and
writing the word
“unconformity” next to it.
Intrusions
Extrusions
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What two characteristics must fossils have in order to be good index fossils?
In the diagram below, a geologist has matched up rock layers based on index fossils.
In geology, this is referred to as
Explain the theory of evolution.
Explain how the fossil record supports this theory.
Geologic Time
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Why are radioactive isotopes useful in determining the absolute age of a rock?
What can be done to change the half-life of a radioactive isotope? Why is this important?
Draw the generic graph for the half-life of a radioactive isotope.
What radioactive isotope could be used to determine the absolute age of material that was recently
living?
Be able to answer these types of questions:
1. What is the half life of uranium-238?
a. 4500 years b. 45,000 years c. 4,500,000,000 years d. 45,000,000,000 years
2. If there is a 100g sample of C14, how many grams of C14 would remain after three half-lifes? How long
would this take? Show all work.
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