Which of the following is an example of a relative date?
A) The Cenozoic era began sixty-five million years ago.
B) A headstone in a cemetery has the date a person died.
C) The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776.
D) The Silurian period came before the Devonian period.
Answer: D
You might also like to view...
Upon entering the body, are drugs gradually oxidized or reduced?
A. Drugs are not oxidized or reduced. They are simply metabolized. B. The drugs are broken down, or reduced to smaller products during the metabolic process. C. The body's mechanisms for oxidizing foods act on drugs causing them to be oxidized as well. D. Some drugs are oxidized and some are reduced, depending on the type of drug ingested.
Pelagic oozes are derived from the shells of microscopic marine organisms
a. True
b. FalseThese two climate types predominate in the eastern United States
A) A and B B) A and C C) B and C D) C and D E) D and B
Samples from the seafloor around the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and the East Pacific Rise show that both areas have been creating new material in the last five million years
Samples from the East Pacific Rise show the five-million-year-old seafloor is three times as wide as similarly aged material from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. What does this say about the rate of seafloor spreading in the East Pacific? A) The seafloor at both sites is growing at the same rate. B) The seafloor at the East Pacific Rise is growing more slowly. C) The seafloor at the Mid-Atlantic is growing more quickly. D) The seafloor at the Mid-Atlantic is growing more slowly.