Earth Science Test 2

What is the scope's trial

After the collection of samples, Charles Darwin created the theory of __________ based off the Finches beaks

The study of fossils

Charles Darwin was interested in what prior to getting on the HMS Beagle

What is the belief that earth-forming processes are natural, have always been the same, and have always happened gradual

Any raw material that we use from our environment

What type of rock is a result of lava cooling

What is a giant cloud of dust and gas (hydrogen and helium) in space

What keeps asteroids away from earth

Water, sunlight, wind, and air are examples of _________ because they are unlimited or easily replenished

What type of rock is the result of rock being transformed under extreme conditions of temperature/pressure

What are distinct rock layers

What is a long period of reduction in the temperature of surface and atmosphere resulting in the expansion of glaciers

What is mostly made of basalt and is much thinner. Normally a little more than 4 miles thick.

What is the term for a single rock layer

Why is the earth tilted

What percent of the atmosphere is nitrogen

What is mostly made of granite and ranges from 16 to 43 miles in thickness.

What layer of the earth is about 15% of the earth's volume, is very dense, and has an inner and outer section

What is the idea that the transitional forms that link one species to another do not live for very long

Coal and oil are examples of what type of resource because they cannot be replenished

What is the belief that one or only a few catastrophic events in the past shaped the earth's surface

What is an example of macroevolution

What is said to be the transitional form between apes and humans

What layer of the earth is about 84% of the earth's volume

What collided with Earth, producing debris that eventually became our moon in old earth theory

What is the study of earth-shaping processes and the structure they form

What is NOT a tectonic plate?

What deflects many objects away from the inner solar system

What is layer of the earth is solid, thicker under mountain chains, and thinner under oceans

What sphere in the mantle includes the crust and uppermost part of the upper mantle

The sun is unusually stable due to what

What word in Genesis refers to God creating the solar system

What verse proves runaway subduction

What part of the mantle is about 125 miles below the lithosphere where the rock is closer to melting

what percentage of earth's surface is liquid water

What studies the properties and structures of the molecules important to biology and essential to life

What is a supercontinent that began to form 335 million years ago, and began to break apart 200 million years ago

Dying star that is some of the brightest objects in the night sky

Assigning an age to a rock, or a fossil, based on the amount of certain elements found in it

What is the study of similar structures in different species

What is a property of water

What is the study of earth's structure, processes, and materials

How much is earth tilted

What two things can we do for resources that cannot be replenished?

What are large slabs of rock that divide Earth's crust and move constantly

What is the symbol of God's new covenant with man after the flood?

What is the theory that natural selection can, over time, take an organism and transform it into a more specialized spec

What is the idea that single-celled organisms gained new genetic information over millions and billions of years?

According to young earth, the ice age occurred in what book of the bible