Estimating the age of a rock layer
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use what you know about relative dating to choose the
correct answers from the drop-down menus.
ethan determines that layer b is 3.5 million years old.
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estimate that layer a is
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Relative dating is the technique to calculate the age of an ancient materials in comparison to another material's age. Layer A is less older, if layer B lies beneath it. Layer A may be 2.5 to 3 million years old.

Explanation:

Before discovery of radioactive carbon dating method, geologists make use of relative dating method in order to determine the age of rock or fossils. The relative dating procedure often referred to as stratigraphy. Though this procedure is not capable of predict absolute age or dating. In relative dating, is mainly based on the fact that the older rock layers will be deeper in respect to the less older rock layer.

4.) metal

"-the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back to the environment

-carbon is the essential component of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates (which make up all organisms)

-carbon exists in air, water, and living organisms

-producers convert carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into carbohydrates during photosynthesis

-bacteria in the atmosphere cycles through the system in filtration units

-in cellular respiration, carbon is released back into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide

-some carbon is stored in limestone (forming one of the largest "carbon sinks" on earth)

-largest carbon reservoir on earth= limestone

-carbon stored in the bodies of organisms as fat, oils, or other molecules may be released into the soil or air when the organism dies

-this may form deposits of coal, oil, or natural gas (fossil fuels, which increased the atmospheric carbon dioxide)

-fossil fuels store carbon left over from bodies of organisms that died millions of years ago

-they are located in the surface of earth, deep within the earth and beneath the ocean floor."