Slide 1Relative Time Slide 2 Relative Dating Relative dating – events are placed in a sequence, but actual occurance dates are unknown. Who is older, Mr. Kopp or Justin…

Slide 1Relative Dating Slide 2 I. Relative Dating Relative Dating comparedRelative Dating is when you give the age of a rock or fossil compared to another rock or fossil.…

Slide 1Whos First? Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company What is relative dating? Scientists try to find out the order in which events happened during…

Slide 1Modern Classification Techniques Slide 2 Taxonomy - the science of taxonomy also involves other biological sciences such as evolution - taxonomy also attempts to determine…

Slide 1Uniformitarianism Laws of nature DONT change with time Past events explained & estimated by modern processes The Present is the Key to the Past Slide 2 Uniformitarianism…

Slide 1geologic time Slide 2 time is critical for geologic processes Rockies and Alps are ~3000 m tall Atlantic Ocean is ~5000 km across for comparison: fingernail grows…

Slide 1Unit 2 Lesson 2 Relative Dating Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Slide 2 Whos First? Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company…

Slide 1Geology and Dating Millions of Years Slide 2 Geology and Dating: The Unreliability of Dating the earth by using Geology… The strata or geologic column, from the…

Slide 1How do we know what happened first? Slide 2 James Hutton (1726-1797) Father of Modern Geology native of Edinburgh, Scotland educated as a medical doctor in Leiden…

1.Chpt. 15.2- Evidence of Change Pgs. 423-429 Pgs. 393-3952. There are many ways scientists demonstrate how evolution might happen.This includes Comparative anatomy Comparative…