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