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Chapter 8 Part 2 Flashcards

1
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Isotope

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An element with a variable number of neutrons in the nucleus

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During radioactive decay an unstable isotope (parent)

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Ejects material from its nucleus to become a daughter isotope

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Three types of radioactive decay

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Alpha decay
Beta emission
electron capture

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Alpha decay

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The parent ejects an alpha particle, made of two protons and two neutrons, from the nucleus

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Beta emission

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The parent emits a beta particle from the nucleus

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Electron capture

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An electron collides with the nucleus, converting a proton into a neutron

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7
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Radioactivity

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Nuclei spontaneously break apart

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8
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An unstable isotope is referred to as the

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Parent

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9
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Most important result of discovery of radioactivity

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It provides a reliable method of calculating the ages of rocks and minerals that contain particular radioactive isotopes

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10
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Radiometric dating

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Procedure of calculating the ages of rocks and minerals containing radioactive isotopes

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Why is radiometric dating reliable?

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The rates of decay for many isotopes have been precisely measured and do not vary under the physical conditions that exist in Earth’s outer layers

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12
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Half-life

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The time that it takes for half of a radioactive sample to decay to its final, stable daughter product

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13
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As the percentage of radioactive parent atoms ____, The proportion of stable daughter atoms ___.

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Declines, rises

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14
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Rules for a radioactive dating

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1- Number of parent and daughter isotopes only changes by radioactive decay (closed system)
2-the amount of daughter at beginning is either zero or can be determined
3-The decay rate (half-life) has not changed over time
4-No errors in collection or analysis

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15
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Date=

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Number of half-livesXrate

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16
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What can be dated?

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Igneous (lava, ashes, intrusive)

Metamorphic (especially high-grade)

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17
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Since you can’t date sedimentary rocks, geologists do what?

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Make brackets using surrounding rocks

18
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The Carbon 14 system

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  • Carbon-14 is formed in the atmosphere all the time.

- A neutron collides with a nitrogen atom forming carbon-14

19
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Carbon-14 will convert back to nitrogen via

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Beta emissiom

20
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Carbon-14 combines with oxygen to form

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Carbon dioxide 14

21
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Plants take in carbon dioxide 14 and make

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Leaves, sugar, fruits and flowers which gets eaten by animals, protists and fungi

22
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One carbon-14:

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1 trillion Carbon 12

23
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Carbon-14 in is _____ with Carbon-14 out

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Balanced

24
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What happens to carbon-14 when you die?

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No more carbon-14 in

25
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Carbon-14 half-life equals

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5,730 years

26
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an archaeologist uses the changing ratio of carbon-14 to Carbon 12 to

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Date the sample

27
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Carbon-14 can you be used today for anything that was

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Biological

28
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Biological

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Wood, paper, bone, shells, cloth

29
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For creationists, carbon-14 dating on fossils have been determined for

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Oil, coal, natural gas, fossil shells and bones, petrified wood, diamonds

30
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Carbon-14 dating can be used for

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Dating events from the historical past as well as those from very recent geologic history

31
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Where is carbon-14 produced?

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In the upper atmosphere as a consequence of cosmic ray bombardment

32
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Geologic timescale

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The division of geologic history into units of varying magnitude

33
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Eons represent the

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Greatest expanses of time

34
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Phanerozoic

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Visible life

35
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Eons are divided into

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Eras

36
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Three eras of Phanerozoic are

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Paleozoic, Mesozoic, Cenozoic

37
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Eras are divided into

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Periods

38
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Periods are divided into

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Epochs

39
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Precambrian

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Informal name for the eons that came before the current Phanerozoic eon

40
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The primary problem in assigning numerical dates is the fact that

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Not all rocks can be dated by radiometric methods

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