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Unit 4, Lessons 3&4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Absolute dating | any method of measuring age of an event or object in years |
| Radioactive decay | the proccess in which a radioactive istope tends to break down into a stable istope of the sameelement or another |
| Half-life | the time required for half of a sample of a radioactive isoptoe to break down by radioactive decay form a daughter isotope |
| Radiometric dating | a method of determining the absolute age of an object by comparing the relative prercentages of a radioactive |
| Geologic Time Scale | the standard method used to divide earths long natrual history into manageble parts |
| Geology | the scientific study of the origin, history, and surface of earth and the shape |