8-SCI Test Review - Chapter 5: The Changing Earth

T or F? The species that we see today are the same species that Noah released from the Ark

What secular hypothesis has been developed to describe how our solar system was created?

Which two planets rotate differently than the others?

Which of the following features that exist today do secular scientists believe formed first?

T or F? The old-earth story adequately explains the evidence of Earth's history of change

What story says that life is designed, not evolved?

T or F? There are no observable patterns in our solar system.

Secular geologists believe that Pangaea was

What story involves a single ice age?

Catastrophic plate tectonics

What story involves the belief that Earth's crust consists of layers of rock

What would an old-earth geologist use to explain a fossil graveyard?

(Young-Earth view) During which period would you find the greatest number/variety of fossils?

The Day-Age theory of the origin of the universe does not include which idea?

No human was present to view the earth's _____

What story supports that the human race began with two people?

Which of the following has been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined?

Which story involves the Flood?

Which of the following concepts about Earth's history is true?

T or F? Sea-floor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges

Geologists determine the relative date of a rock layer by applying the principle of _____

What story states that creation occurred from nothing about 7000 years ago?

Geologists estimate an absolute age for a rock by using ____

Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who proposed the

(Young Earth) Order of fossil record is based on the ability of animals to flee rising water

What story involves multiple supercontinents, ending with Pangaea?

T or F? An ice age is the same as a glacial period

What story supports gradual sea-floor spreading?

Which story involves a geologic time scale spanning billions of years?

What story's origin is based on a literal reading of the Word of God?

According to most secular geologists, which of the following was caused by a collision?

When one tectonic plate slides beneath another to form a trench, _______ occurs

What story involves large amounts of rapidly flowing water?

What are the two types of tectonic plates?

T or F? The Continental Drift Theory is an evolutionary idea that is not based on evidence

Sea-floor spreading is thought to be driven by the movement of _____

Which of the following observations about our solar system give(s) us clues about its history?

Tectonic plates

What story's origin is based only on natural processes?

Which of the following was created first in the young-earth story?

T or F? According to the nebular hypothesis, all planets began as planetesimals

Giant moving sections of the earth's crust are called ______

According to old-earth geologists, which is necessary for a glacial period to begin?

What story involves history being directed with a purpose, not by accident?

T or F? A common creationist view is that there was a single ice age sometime after the Flood

Geologically, the term stratum refers to

What story involves "fountains of the great deep?"

Which of the following events came last in the old-earth story?

A creationist's explanation for what caused the extinction of wooly mammoths says all except:

T or F? We are certain that the Atlantic took about 180 mil yrs to form due to plate tectonics

T or F? The geologic column is an evolutionary idea that is not based on evidence.

What story involves the formation of planets from planetesimals

The Flood described in the book of Genesis

What story involves catastrophic plate tectonics?

T or F? Radiometric dating is a reliable way to find the absolute ages for rocks and fossils

What story supports slow continental drift?

If you were a geologist looking for Earth's most recently formed crust, where would you go?

The study of earth-shaping processes and the structures they form is called _____

T or F? The young-earth story adequately explains the evidence of Earth's history of change

What story involves a diluvial geologic time scale?

T or F? Mid-ocean ridges are locations for tectonic plate subduction

What story involves glaciers shaping areas of the globe?

How long did Noah and his family spend inside the Ark?

What story involves multiple ice ages?

According to the diluvial geologic time scale, the lowest stratum would represent

Which story has problems explaining the solar system?

T or F? Subduction happens when layers in the geologic column are jumbled

T or F? Runaway subduction is a feature of Baumgardner's catastrophic plate tectonics theory

T or F? Geologists assign both absolute and relative ages to a rock stratum