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Questions from 8th Grade Earth Science BJU Press, Ch. 5
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About how old do secular scientists believe the earth is?
2 billion years
65 million years
10,000 years
4.5 billion years
2
The philosopher who proposed that our solar system was formed from a cloud of dust and gas called nebula.
Tony Stark
Immanuel Kant
Sir Isaac Newton
Albert Einstein
3
What do scientists call it when oceanic plates slide under continental plates?
Subduction
Plate tectonics
Adduction
Continental drift
4
What often determines how scientists interpret the evidence they observe?
Their worldview
They agree with their colleagues
What they learned in elementary school
What the textbooks say
5
The theory that continents are slowly moving relative to one another.
Plate tectonics
Curling
Continental spreading
Continental drift
6
Under the Biblical model, what event is responsible for the number of fossils in the earth and their positions?
The six days of creation
The Tower of Babel
The Global flood
The ice age
7
Gas giants have more moons than rocky planets.
True
False
8
What are two ways that geologists can date a rock stratum?
The amount of carbon in the rocks and measuring the depth of the layers.
Radiometric dating and the Bible
The date stamp on the rocks and types of fossils are found in the layer.
Radiometric dating and principle of superposition
9
Young Earth theorists say the ice age was caused by evaporating warm oceans and blocking of sunlight by volcanic ash.
True
False
10
Small bodies of rock, ice, and dust (believed to be pulled together by gravity to form planets.
Comets
Planetesimals
Astroids
Nebula
11
What do geologists believe are the driving forces for sea-floor spreading?
Hot, lower density magma below the earth's surface rising.
Glaciers
The tesseract
Earthquakes
12
The planetary orbits in our solar system are evidence proving the nebular hypothesis.
True
False
13
Geologists call the pieces of the earth's crust this (there are 15 of them).
Tectonic plates
Geologic strata
Continental drift
Magma
14
Invented by geologists, the model of rock strata that documents the history of the earth is called the...
The Cenozoic strata
Geologic stratum
The fossil record
Geologic column
15
The fossil record clearly shows one organism transitioning to another.
True
False
16
Planets closest to the sun have rocky bodies.
False
True
17
Only secular scientists change their models so that the evidence they observe fits their stories.
True
False
18
How many ice ages do secular scientists believe have happened?
1
3
4
5
19
The name of the supercontinent first proposed by geologist Alfred Wegener.
Pangaea
Atlantis
Micronesia
Perelandra
20
This is not evidence for wooly mammoth's dying suddenly.
Grass and buttercups in their stomachs.
Suffocated
Buried standing up.
Found in Siberia.
