Earth Science ch5 review 1

Fossilization requires what to form?

What is the mantle composed (or made) of?

Which events came last in the old-earth story?

the formation of new ocean crust at the mid-ocean ridge

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

the study of earth-shaping processes and the structures they form

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

Strata is

formed when continents have repeatedly crashed together

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

Which is NOT an observation of the solar system that gives us clues about its history

What is a model of rock stata that documents the history of the earth?

The 2 planets raise major questions about the validity of the commonly accepted model of the origin of the solar system

Immanuel Kant suggested that our solar system and its planets formed slowly from a cloud of dust and gas called a _____

Geologists discovered that the rock on opposite sides of underwater mountain ranges contained the same _______

the Continental ____ Theory is the idea that contenents have slowly drifted over a long period of time.

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

small bodies of rock, dust, and ice

As the sides of a rift slowly pull away, more magma...

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

What are the 2 ways that geologists can date a rock stratum?

What pulls glaciers downhill?

the process in which many of the continental plates were carried along at many miles per hour at the start of the flood

According to young-earth geologists, the order of fossils in the fossil record reflects the ability of organisms to:

According to secular scientists, Earth began forming ______ years ago

the flood described in the book of Genesis

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

Stratum is:

study the evolution of life on earth through the fossil record

The most significant physical event in the earth's history other than creation was:

What was created first in the young-earth story?