Radiometric dating is a technique used to determine the age of rocks.Geologists have used this technique to determine that
A)Earth is about 6.2 trillion years old,and life appeared on Earth about 4.9 trillion years ago.
B)Earth is about 4.6 billion years old,and life appeared on Earth about 3.4 billion years ago.
C)Earth is about 4.6 million years old,and life appeared on Earth about 4.4 million years ago.
D)Earth is about 6.2 thousand years old,and life appeared on Earth about 6 thousand years ago.

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Radiometric dating techniques have shown that Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, and the earliest evidence of life on Earth is about 3.4 billion years old.

Radiometric Dating Is a Technique Used to Determine the Age