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Questions from 8th Grade Earth Science BJU Press, Ch. 5
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1
Gas giants have more moons than rocky planets.
True
False
2
This is not evidence for wooly mammoth's dying suddenly.
Found in Siberia.
Buried standing up.
Grass and buttercups in their stomachs.
Suffocated
3
Young Earth theorists say the ice age was caused by evaporating warm oceans and blocking of sunlight by volcanic ash.
True
False
4
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 principle of superposition
The date stamp on the rocks and types of fossils are found in the layer.
Radiometric dating and the Bible
5
Geologists call the pieces of the earth's crust this (there are 15 of them).
Magma
Tectonic plates
Continental drift
Geologic strata
6
The planetary orbits in our solar system are evidence proving the nebular hypothesis.
False
True
7
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
8
How many ice ages do secular scientists believe have happened?
5
4
3
1
9
About how old do secular scientists believe the earth is?
4.5 billion years
10,000 years
2 billion years
65 million years
10
The theory that continents are slowly moving relative to one another.
Continental drift
Plate tectonics
Curling
Continental spreading
11
The fossil record clearly shows one organism transitioning to another.
True
False
12
Planets closest to the sun have rocky bodies.
False
True
13
Only secular scientists change their models so that the evidence they observe fits their stories.
True
False
14
Small bodies of rock, ice, and dust (believed to be pulled together by gravity to form planets.
Planetesimals
Astroids
Nebula
Comets
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 ice age
The Global flood
16
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
17
What do scientists call it when oceanic plates slide under continental plates?
Plate tectonics
Continental drift
Adduction
Subduction
18
What do geologists believe are the driving forces for sea-floor spreading?
Glaciers
Earthquakes
Hot, lower density magma below the earth's surface rising.
The tesseract
19
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
20
The name of the supercontinent first proposed by geologist Alfred Wegener.
Micronesia
Pangaea
Atlantis
Perelandra
