BJU Earth Science Chapter 5 Unit Test

Most secular and young earth scientists accept the plate tectonics theory but disagree in when it happened.

Old earth geologists would use a ______________ to explain a fossil graveyard.

The order of events in the Genesis creation is differnt from the order in which secular scientist believe .

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

According to old-earth geologists a rapid cooling of both continents and oceans has to occur for an ice age.

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

According to the diluvial geological time sclae, the lowest stratum of the geologic column would represent ____________.

Secular geologists believe that Pangea was

An ice age is the same thing as a glacial period.

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

Radiometric dating is a reliable way to find the absolute ages for rocks and fossils.

The young-earth story adequately explains the evidence of Earth's history of change.

Geologists assign both absolute and relative ages to a rock stratum.

The geologic column is an evolutionary idea that is not based on evidence.

Geologically, the term stratum refers to

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

According to a young -earth view, during which period would you expect to find the greatest number & variety of fossils?

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

A common creationists view is that there was a single ice age sometime after the flood.

According to most secular scientists the earth's atmosphere did nto contain oxygen.

The old-earth story adequately explains the evidence of earth's history of change.

According to young-earth geologists , the order of fossils in the fossil record coinsides with rising water.

Tectonic plates may contain both continental crust & oceanic crust.

The species that we see today are the same species that Noah released from the Ark.

Many scientists believe that the large moving plates of the earth's crust are supported by geologic columns.

A creationists explanation for what caused the extinction of the wooly mammoths includes all of the following except...

Subduction happens when layers in the geologic column are jumbled.

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

Geologists estimate an absolute age for a rock by using ______________.

The flood described in the book of Genesis marked the end of all pre flood civilizations.