8th grade Ch 5 Science Test

How long did Noah and his family spend inside the Ark?

Tectonic plates

YE geo‘s believe order of fossils in the fossil record-based on ability of organisms to flee rising waters during Flood.

Compare the secular geologic time scale(SGTS)with the diluvial geologic time scale(DGTS).

According to a young-earth view, during which period would you expect to find the greatest number & variety of fossils?

According to young-earth geologists, it is likely that the Arctic Ocean was warm & remained ice-free during the Ice Age.

According to the nebular hypothesis, all planets began as planetesimals.

Which of the following events came last in the old-earth story?

multiple supercontinents ending with Pangaea

Which of the following features that exist today do secular scientists believe formed first?

catastrophic plate tectonics

Formation from planetesimals

Runaway subduction is a feature of John Baumgardner’s catastrophic plate tectonics theory.

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 has been used to hypothesize which continents were one time joined?

Sea-floor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges.

Secular geologists believe that Pangaea was

Why are ice ages also called glacial periods?

Which of the following was created first in the young-earth story?

The study of earth-shaping processes and the structures they form is called tectonics.

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

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

2 planets raise ?’s about validity of commonly accepted model for origin of solar system because of the way they rotate.

According to young-earth geologists, the order of fossil record reflects the ability of organisms to ________.

A creationist’s explanation for what caused the extinction of the wooly mammoths includes all of the following except

Compare secular and catastrophic plate tectonics.

The order of events in Genesis Creation account is __ the order in which secular scientists believe things have evolved.

a single Ice Age

Earth’s crust consisting of layers of rock

The most significant physical event in the earth’s history other than Creation was the Flood.

What would an old-earth geologist use to help explain a fossil graveyard?

There are no observable patterns in our solar system.

The flood described in the book of Genesis

Ice age w/ extra snowfall would require oceans, main source of water vapor for snow formation, be much ____ than normal.

a diluvial geologic time scale

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

Why was Alfred’s Wegener’s initial Continental Drift theory not widely accepted?

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

Geologically, the term stratum refers to

This we know for certain: no human was present to view the earth’s beginnings

Subduction happens when layers in the geologic column are jumbled.

According to old-earth geologists, which of the following is necessary for a glacial period to begin?

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

What is one important clue from adjacent tectonic plates that scientists use to support the idea of continental drift?

The __________ hypothesis has been developed by secular scientists to describe how our solar system came into existence.

According to the diluvial geologic time scale, the lowest stratum of the geologic column would represent ___________.

According to most secular geologists, which of the following was caused by a collision?

Catastrophic plate tectonics

What are three main potential explanations for the origin of the earth? Which is the only one acceptable to a Christian?

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