Chapter 5 Test Review

Question 1

The nebular hypothesis is held by______________(young or old) -earth geologists.

Answer 1

Old

Question 2

Which is NOT a problem with the old-earth story?
A. Venus rotates backwards.
B. Earth is wobbling from a collision.
C. The sun rotates too slowly.
D. Uranus is tipped on its side.

Answer 2

B. Earth is wobbling from a collision.

Question 3

According to young-earth geologists, what is the origin of Earth?

Answer 3

It was supernaturally created out of nothing.

Question 4

The order of events in the Genesis Creation account is _____ the order in which secular scientists
believe things have evolved.
A. different from
B. identical to
C. the exact opposite of
D. somewhat similar to

Answer 4

A. Different from

Question 5

Geologically, the term stratum refers to
A. a long period of time.
B. a rare fossil.
C. a large plate of the earth’s crust.
D. a layer of rock.

Answer 5

D. A layer of rock

Question 6

Geologists estimate an absolute age for a rock by using
A. the principle of superposition.
B. radiometric dating.
C. its composition.
D. tectonic dating.

Answer 6

B. Radiometric dating

Question 7

Scientists who study layers of rocks and their relationships are working in a field called
A. tectonics.
B. paleontology
C. stratigraphy.
D. radiometry.

Answer 7

C. Stratigraphy

Question 8

Which of these has been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined?
A. climates
B. magnetic crystals
C. glaciers
D. mountains

Answer 8

B. magnetic crystals

Question 9

Circular reasoning is a logical error committed by scientists who
A. study plate tectonics.
B. believe the geosyncline theory.
C. propose several ice ages.
D. use rocks to date fossils dated by the same rocks.

Answer 9

D. use rocks to date fossils dated by the same rocks

Question 10

Radiometric dating methods do not include the
A. uranium-lead method.
B. tree-ring counting method.
C. carbon-14 method.
D. potassium-argon method.

Answer 10

B. tree-ring counting method

Question 11

How long did Noah and his family spend inside the Ark?
A. a few days
B. a few months
C. about a year
D. a few years

Answer 11

C. about a year

Question 12

Which was not a way in which the biblical Flood affected the world and people?
A. dividing line between the originally
created earth and today’s world
B. beginning of all recorded human
history outside the Bible account
C. unchanged surface of the earth
D. decreased length of human life

Answer 12

C. unchanged surface of the earth

Question 13

A creationary scientist’s explanation for what caused the extinction of the wooly mammoths
includes all of the following EXCEPT_______________________
A. increasing cold
B. plate tectonics.
C. rising seas
D. dust storms.

Answer 13

B. Plate tectonics

Question 14

The bottom level of a diluvial geologic column would be
A. the Creation event.
B. the Flood.
C. the Lost-World era.
D. the New-World era.

Answer 14

A. the Creation event

Question 15

In which level of a diluvial geologic column would you expect to find the greatest number and
variety of fossils?
A. the Creation event.
B. the Flood.
C. the Lost-World era.
D. the New-World era.

Answer 15

B. the Floood

Question 16

Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who proposed the
A. principle of superposition.
B. nebular hypothesis.
C. catastrophic plate tectonics theory.
D. continental displacement theory.

Answer 16

D. continental displacement theory.

Question 17

If you were a geologist interested in studying the earth’s most recently formed crust, where would
you go?
A. the rift at a mid-ocean ridge
B. the asthenosphere
C. the middle of a geosyncline
D. atop a glacier

Answer 17

A. the rift at a mid-ocean ridge

Question 18

Sea-floor spreading is thought to be driven by the movement of
A. glaciers.
B. synclines.
C. the mantle.
D. sediments.

Answer 18

C. the mantle

Question 19

Most secular and young-earth geologists accept the plate tectonics theory, but they usually
disagree on_____________________
A. when it happened.
B. where it happened.
C. both A and B
D. neither A nor B

Answer 19

A. when it happened

Question 20

What hypothesis has been developed by secular scientists to describe how our solar system came into existence?

Answer 20

nebular

Question 21

The existence what planet raises major questions about the validity of the commonly accepted model for the origin of the solar system.

Answer 21

Neptune

Question 22

What is the natural biological process that produced the many species of animals and
plants today from the relatively few kinds on the Ark?

Answer 22

speciation

Question 23

Giant moving sections of the earth’s crust are called what?

Answer 23

tectonic plates

Question 24

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

Answer 24

superposition

Question 25

What was the most significant physical event in the earth’s history other than Creation

Answer 25

Flood

Question 26

What is the study of the earth’s bedrock, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains, and the forces that formed them.

Answer 26

tectonics

Question 27

What occurs when one tectonic plate slides beneath another, often forming a trench?

Answer 27

subduction

Question 28

ex nihilo

Answer 28

"from nothing"

Question 29

lava

Answer 29

molten rock that flows from the earth

Question 30

anno mundi

Answer 30

“year of the earth”

Question 31

Pangaea

Answer 31

theoretical supercontinent

Question 32

anno Domini

Answer 32

“year of the Lord”

Question 33

magma

Answer 33

molten rock under the earth’s crust

Question 34

True or False During the proposed ice ages, large amounts of snow temporarily built up on the land and compacted, forming deep continental glaciers.

Answer 34

True

Question 35

True or False Tectonic plates may be classified as continental or oceanic.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

True or False Many creationary scientists believe that there was a single ice age sometime after the Flood.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

True or False According to most secular scientists, the earth’s early atmosphere did not contain oxygen.

Answer 37

True

Question 38

True or False We know for certain that it took the Atlantic Ocean about 180 million years to form, based on the present-day motion of tectonic plates.

Answer 38

False

Question 39

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

Answer 39

False

Question 40

True or False Radiometric dating has given ancient ages for rocks that are known to have been formed by volcanoes just a few years before.

Answer 40

True

Question 41

True or False Subduction is a particular type of radiometric dating.

Answer 41

False

Question 42

True or False The five layers of the diluvial geologic column are the Evolution Event, the Lost-World (Pre-Flood) Era, the Flood Event, the New-World (Post-Flood) Era, and Recent Sediments.

Answer 42

False

Question 43

True or False The geosyncline theory is popular with geologists today because it clearly explains how mountains formed.

Answer 43

False

Question 44

True or False Sea-floor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges.

Answer 44

True

Question 45

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

Answer 45

True

Question 46

Essay: What are the three main potential explanations for the origin of the earth, and which is the only one acceptable to a Christian?

Answer 46

The earth could have always existed. Or it could have formed naturally from pre–existing materials. Finally, it could have been created supernaturally out of nothing. This final case is how the earth’s creation is described in Genesis. (ST p. 95)