Chapter 8 Flashcards
If a child were born with natural musical ability because the mother had taken piano lessons, this would illustrate the theory of
A. use and disuse
B. need
C. mutations
D. inheritance of acquired characteristics
D. Inheiritance of acquired characteristcs
According to many current Flood models, the possible sources of the water include
A. superheated steam from volcanoes
B. a canopy of water surrounding the earth
C. an outpouring of water from beneath the earth’s surface
D. all of the above
E. A and C only
D. all of the above
The most common type of identifiable fossils is
A. preserved hard parts of animals and plants
B. preserved carbon in the form of coal
C. petrified fossils
D, frozen fossils
A. preserved hard parts of animals and plants
Which of the following is NOT a reason to believe in the universality of the Genesis flood?
A. The covenant God made with Noah (that such a flood would never happen again) would have been broken every time there was a local flood.
B. It rained forty days and forty nights.
C. There are New Testament references to a worldwide flood
D. The purpose of the Flood was to destroy all creatures from the face of the earth
B. It rained forty days and forty nights
Which is NOT true of the carbon-14 cycle?
A. Carbon-14 is formed by cosmic radiation’s bombarding nitrogen in theupper atmosphere.
B. Carbon-14 enters living organisms
C. Carbon-14 remains trapped in organisms longer than carbon-12
D. Carbon-14 combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide
C. Carbon-14 remains trapped in organisms longer than carbon-12
Which of the following would a Creationist NOT agree with?
A. Genesis gives a literal description of Creation
B. the Bible is the inspired Word of God
C. Science is a means to determine all truth
D. The Fall is the cause of all of mankind’s problems
C. Science is a means to determine all truth
A fossil that goes through several layers of rock is called A. stratified B. polystrate C. longitudinal d. petrified
B. polystrate
The age of the earth is probably between A. 6000 and 7000 B. 10,000 and 20,000 C. 20,000 and 30,000 D. several hundred thousand and several million years
A. 6000 and 7000
The fact that many organisms produce more offspring than can actually survive is an important part of the theory developed by A. Darwin B. Lamarck C. deVries D. Marx
A. Darwin
That Adam was able to take care of himself and eat fruit from trees when he was created supports a belief in
A. half-life theories of dating
B. creation with apparent age
C. the ability to day by decay and build-up
d. the gap theory
B. creation with apparent age
Which of the following is NOT a reason to claim that dating methods using radioactive elements are unreliable?
A. They assume that the rate of decay of the radioactive element must have always been constant
B. They assume a knowledge of how much of a radioactive element was present when the substance was formed.
C. They assume that none of the end products, subproducts, or radioactive elements escaped from the substance being dated.
D. They have never yielded an accurate date
D. They have never yielded an accurate date
Who hypothesized that an organ that was NOT used would disappear from the species? A. Darwin B. deVries C. Lamarck D. Mendel
C. Lamarck
Missing links are A. found in the geologic record B. intermediate forms that must have existed if evolutionary theory is true C. sometimes found alive today d. illustrated by the Eohippus
B. intermediate forms that must have existed if evolutionary theory is true
Darwin’s finches and the various collections of the peppered moths in England demonstrate
A. evolution
B. natural selection
C. inheritance of acquired characteristics
D. support for the pangene theory
B. natural selection
Which of the following concepts is NOT a part of Darwin's theory of evolution? A. descent with modification B. use and disuse C. natural selection D. pangenes
B. use and disuse
a mixture of evolution and the biblical account of Creation
theistic evolution
an old universe combined with God-directed creative acts
progressive creationism
the days described during Creation are actually long periods of time
day age theory
proposes a first creation that existed before Adam and Eve
gap theory
six consecutive twenty-four hours days
literal creation
just like an ape
Zinjanthropus
conjectured from a pig’s tooth
Nebraska man
a practical joke
Piltdown man
constructed from a bone, skull fragments, and a few teeth scattered over a riverbank
Java man
