13 - What is Carbon Dating

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13 - What is Carbon Dating

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What is Carbon Dating?

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Everything that is alive has an element called carbon-14 in it. Plants, animals, and people all have carbon. When a living thing dies, the carbon stops entering its body. Slowly, the carbon starts to change and leave the object. This happens over a very long time. Scientists use 'carbon dating' to study old things. They measure how much carbon is left inside. This helps them find the age of the object. They can learn how old a bone, a piece of wood, or a shell is. It is like a specific clock for history. Carbon dating helps us understand the past.

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Definitions:

Text: Having life; not dead.
Text: A person who studies and knows a lot about science.
Text: To find the size, amount, or degree of something.
Text: How old someone or something is.
Text: A hard part inside the body of an animal or person.

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Label: Alive
Answer: A
Label: Scientist
Answer: B
Label: Measure
Answer: C
Label: Age
Answer: D
Label: Bone
Answer: E

Fill In The Blanks:

Before: The flowers in the garden are still
After: and beautiful.
Answer: alive
Before: A
After: works in a laboratory to learn new things.
Answer: scientist
Before: We need to
After: the room to fit the new sofa.
Answer: measure
Before: Can you guess the
After: of this old painting?
Answer: age
Before: The dog found a big
After: in the park.
Answer: bone

Scrambled:

Text: in carbon is things living All
Answer: All living things have carbon in them.
Text: measure Scientists carbon the left
Answer: Scientists measure the carbon left.
Text: old tells The age us carbon the
Answer: The carbon tells us the old age.
Text: helps history understand It us
Answer: It helps us understand history.
Text: study bones They old can
Answer: They can study old bones.