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