Earth Science Chapter 5 BJU

the motion of oceanic tectonic plates away from mid-ocean ridges where mantle rocks rise forming new ocean crust

A huge landmass containing many continental tectonic plates

Process that occurs when thin and dens oceanic crust slowly slides under more massive and less dense continental crust

Creationary version of the plate tectonics theory that relies on Creation and the flood to account for the continents

What is the bottom layer of the diluvial geologic column?

the global ocean

Sea-floor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges.

a single Ice Age

How many glacial periods do secular geologists think happened in the earth’s past?

Using index fossils to date rocks often results in what logical error?

What has been used to hypothesize that continents were at one time joined?

a rock layer

Subduction happens when layers in the geologic column are jumbled.

Which of the following observations of the solar system give(s) us clues about its history?

What caused the death and ultimate extinction of the wooly mammoths?

How do secular geologists estimate an absolute age for a rock?

secular model for the origin of solar systems that says it formed from a nebula as matter stuck together due to gravity

model that explains the shape and location of continents as the effect of slow motion of tectonic plates over millions

multiple supercontinents ending with Pangaea

a diluvial geologic time scale

the last theoretical supercontinent

Most secular geologists agree that the earth formed when matter from the new sun was flung out into orbit around it.

Which of the following statements about Earth's history is true?

Most secular and young-earth geologists accept the plate tectonics theory, but what do they usually disagree on?

Earth's crust consisting of layers of rock

Why is Venus a problem for the nebular hypothesis?

How would a secular scientist explain why Uranus rotates on its side?

According to nebular hypothesis, all planets began as planetesimals.

The study of layers of rocks and their relationship

formation from planetesimals

There are no observable patterns in our solar system.

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

How far back do the earliest human records date?

How many days was Noah on the Ark?

How many ice ages do creation scientists believe there were?

Suggests that the earth's crust is made of semi-rigid plates floating on plastic rocks in the mantle.

molten rock deep within the earth

Which planets raise major questions about the validity of the commonly accepted model for the origin of the solar system

It took the Atlantic Ocean about 180 million years to form, according to present-day motion of tectonic plates.

List the five layers of the diluvial geologic column in order

Many scientists believe that the large moving plates of the earth's crust are supported by geologic columns.

According to secular scientists how did the moon form?

What are the two types of tectonic plates?

Moving sections of the earth's crust that have tectonic boundaries and move as a unit compared to other regions crust

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

The most significant physical event other than creation.

the forces, energy, and processes that formed and reshaped earth's continents, mountains, and ocean basins

catastrophic plate tectonics