These are the *correct* answers to the "Age of Earth" unit test.
1.) The fossil is older than the layer of rock it was formed in
2.) The fault is younger that the layers of rock based on the law of crosscutting
3.) Both laws describe the relative ages of rocks
4.) It only works for organisms that died less than about 60,00 years ago
5.) They are both used to determine the absolute ages of rocks and fossils
6.) Ammonites existed for a relatively limited period of time
7.) continental drift
8.) It was found on many continents
9.) Distinct bands in rocks that contain magnetic particles
10.) They begin deeper in Earth's crust
11.)They are younger and form through the cooling of magma
12.) Scientists coul explain the presence of the same life form on continents separated by an ocean by inferring that the life form had the abillity to survive for long periods of time in salt water or fly long distances.
You may want to use your own wording for question twelve, because I don't want me or any of you to get in trouble for using the same answers.
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