Question 1: ________ estimates the age of
trees by correlation of the various growth rings in their wood to known
year-by-year reference sequences in the region to reflect
year-to-year climatic variation.
Question 2: While of critical importance to the historian, methods of
determining chronology are used in most disciplines of science,
especially astronomy, geology, paleontology and ________.
Question 3: The familiar terms ________ and era (within the meaning of a coherent system
of numbered calendar years) concern two complementary fundamental
concepts of chronology.
Question 4: Chronology is the science of locating historical events in time,
and is distinct from, but relies upon chronometry or timekeeping, and ________,
which examines the writing of history and the use of historical
methods.
Question 5: In
Judeo-Christian cultures, historical dates in an absolute
chronology are understood to be referred to the Christian era, in
combination with the proleptic Julian calendar
(originally) and the ________ respectively.