Lesson summary for: Who's on First? Relative Dating To rate this
resource, click a star: Students sequence familiar items and
then do a similar sequencing activity using fossil pictures to
learn how paleontologists use fossils to give relative dates to
rock strata. Barber, Marsha and Bartos, Diane - The sequence of
forms in the fossil record is reflected in the sequence of the
rock layers in which they are found and indicates the order in
which they evolved. - Scientists use fossils to learn about past
life. - Scientists use geological evidence to establish the age
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