8th Sci. A Changing Earth (Ch 5)

Which of the following statements is true?

• Our sun is much larger than the central star of other galaxies.

• The sun's gravity is more than strong enough to create the solar system.

• All the planets are rocky and rotate in the same direction.

• Inner planets have fewer moons than outer planets.

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Using relative age dating, which color stratum would contain the youngest fossils?

• blue - top

• orange - bottom

• purple - upper middle

• pink - lower middle

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Which of the following supports a young-Earth theory?

• Earth formed from clumps of dust, rock, and ice pulled together by gravity.

• Nothing had to evolve.  Everything was fully functional when it came into existence.

•  Our solar system and its planets formed slowly from a cloud of dust and gas called a nebula.

• Earth has had 5 major ice ages.

• Fixed, or ______, age of rocks is based on the _________ found in them.

• certain

  fossils

• relative

  layers

• absolute

  elements

• scientific

  bones

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1. The _________ created the dramatic features that we see today in a short amount of time. This is called ___________________.

• continental drift

  Pangaea

• Genesis Flood

  1. Catastrophic Plate Tectonics

• ice ages

  subduction

• Big Bang

  nebular hypothesis

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•  Determining the age of rocks by measuring the amount of nuclear changes within the substances in the rock.

• Magnetic field measurement
• Radiometric dating
• Fossil analysis
• Geological mapping

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How do you explain simple organisms being found on the bottom layer of the geologic column?

• Simple ones appeared on Earth first and more complex organisms evolved over time, so they were in younger layers of rock.

• 1. The sediments moved by the flood would have trapped simple organisms quickly.  Upper layers contain more complex ones because they could survive longer.

• More complex organisms didn't even exist until after the flood.

• When the earth was formed only simple organisms were on Earth.

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Continental plates moving rapidly during the flood.

• Rapid tectonics

• Runaway subduction

• Plate sliding

• Rapid release

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Where do some secular, or worldly, scientists think the oceans came from?

• God created them.

• rain

•  Ice from comets that collided with the earth and melted.

• The heavy dew that fell on Earth over millions of years.

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Fossil

• Artifacts and bones from the past.

• Anything from the past that man has preserved.

• Rocks and elements from 1,000 or more years ago.

• The remains of living organisms preserved by natural processes.

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