Earth Science Review Chapter 5 2015

In what year was Adam created?

Geologists estimate an absolute age for a rock by using

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

How long did people live before the flood?

Ice age

Most secular and young earth geologists accept plate tectonics theory, buy usually disagree on

year of the earth

year of the Lord

A type of tectonic plate

One of the effects of the flood

Which of these planets raises questions about the validity of the secular model of origins?

The study of the earth's bedrock, earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains and forces that formed them

Interprets Genesis 1 as a description of two parallel groups of days not a history of creation

The order of events in the Creation account is ______ the order according to secular scientists

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

Theoretical global sea

Secular geologists believe the woolly mammoths died how many years ago?

Geologically, the term stratum means

The earliest human records date back how many years ago?

From nothing

This describes how secular scientists think our solar system came into existence

Aside from Creation, this is the most significant physical event in the earth's history

Which of these has been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined?

Mechanism of catastrophic plate tectonics

The bottom level of a diluvial geologic column would be

When one tectonic plate slides under another, often forming a trench

Radiometric dating methods do not include

Theoretical supercontinent

Sea floor spreading is thought to be driven by the movement of

If you were interested in studying the earth's most recently formed crust, where would you go?

Which book of the Bible contains the most references to cold weather, snow, and ice?

Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who proposed the

Circular reasoning is a logical error committed by scientists who

Giant, moving sections of the earth's crust

Scientist who study layers of rocks and their relationships are working in a field called