Question

What is "Radioactive Dating"?

A. A method of determining the age of a fossil that estimates the age of the organism at its death

B. A method of determining the age of a fossil based on the amount of certain isotopes that remain in a fossil or rock

C. A method of determining the age of a fossil that estimates how closely related various fossilized organisms were

D. A method of determining the age of fossil based on a comparison to the age of other similar fossils

Answer 1

Unlike relative dating methods, absolute dating methods provide chronological estimates of the age of certain geological materials associated with fossils, and even direct age measurements of the fossil material itself.