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Which of the following is the method used by scientists to estimate the age of the Earth?
Which of the following is the method used by scientists to estimate the age of the Earth?
- Analyzing rocks
- Analyzing landforms
- Analyzing fossils
- All of the above (correct)
What is the estimated age of the Earth?
What is the estimated age of the Earth?
- 4.6 million years
- 4.6 billion years (correct)
- 4.6 quadrillion years
- 4.6 trillion years
What is geologic time?
What is geologic time?
- The measurement of the Earth's age
- The process of carbon dating
- The sequence of events in the Earth's history (correct)
- The study of rocks and landforms
What are the four eras into which geologic time is divided?
What are the four eras into which geologic time is divided?