Earth Science ch5 review 1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

study the evolution of life on earth through the fossil record

Fossilization requires what to form?

Stratum is:

What was created first in the young-earth story?

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

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

What is the mantle composed (or made) of?

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

small bodies of rock, dust, and ice

the flood described in the book of Genesis

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

formed when continents have repeatedly crashed together

Strata is

What pulls glaciers downhill?

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

Which events came last in the old-earth story?

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

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

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

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