Earth Science Test 2

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

What deflects many objects away from the inner solar system

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

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

What is an example of macroevolution

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

What is the study of similar structures in different species

The sun is unusually stable due to what

What are distinct rock layers

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

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

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

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

What percent of the atmosphere is nitrogen

Any raw material that we use from our environment

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

What keeps asteroids away from earth

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

what percentage of earth's surface is liquid water

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

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

What is NOT a tectonic plate?

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

The study of fossils

How much is earth tilted

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

What verse proves runaway subduction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is the term for a single rock layer

What type of rock is a result of lava cooling

Why is the earth tilted

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

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

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

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

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

What word in Genesis refers to God creating the solar system

What is a property of water

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

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

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

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

What is the scope's trial

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