Question

Luisa has two older brothers and a younger sister. She had been learning about how to describe the ages of rocks. After thinking about it, she realized she could compare people's positions in her family in the same way that scientists compare rocks. Which geology term would describe the way Luisa compares the positions of people in her family?

a. absolute age
b. rock layers
c. relative age
d. superposition

Answer 1

c. relative age

Step-by-step explanation:

Relative age is a method of describing the age of rocks based on their order of appearance in the geologic column.

Events are denoted by their position in the column.

• The premise of most of the assumptions used relative age determination is based on stratigraphic laws.
• Absolute age gives numeric ages to rocks.

Since Luisa is comparing the age of people based on their position in her family, she is using the concept of relative dating.