Fall Semester Exam! Flashcards
Is ridiculing a secular scientist because he believes the earth is 4.5 billion years old applying the CM?
NO
Know the Creation Mandate
God’s command for man to take care of the earth
Know the 3 foundational points of a Christian worldview
Creation, fall and curse, redemption
What is a worldview based on?
Presuppositions
Do creationary and evolutionary scientists interpret the same data the same way?
NO
Know what a scientific model is
Models explain, describe, or represent something in the world
Know what theory a singularity is important to
Big Bang Theory
Should a hypothesis be complicated?
NO
What are two examples of models?
Hypothesis and laws
What comes first in the scientific process?
Stating the hypothesis
What is the LHC trying to show?
How the universe started
What is matter?
Anything that occupies space and has mass
What’s an example of a mixture?
Sweet tea
What’s an example of a pure substance?
Solid aluminum
What has a fixed volume but not a definite shape?
A liquid
What is a substance’s state of matter mostly affected by?
Temperature
What is a fluid?
Any substance that flows
What particles posses the most energy?
Plasma particles
What would be used to find the weight of an object?
A spring scale
What are some examples of measures of volume?
Quarts, gallons, cubic inches, liters, milliliters, cubic meters, cubic centimeters
How would a globe be most accurate?
By showing the true shape of the continent
When do the earliest maps in existence date back to?
The times of ancient Babylonia
What does a cartographer do?
They make maps
What are the cardinal directions?
North, south, east, and west
What degrees latitude is the equator?
0 degrees latitude
How did educated people before Christ know that the earth was round?
Lunar eclipses
What is the highest possible longitude reading?
180 degrees
Where does the international dateline pass through?
Western Pacific Ocean
Is a degree of latitude the same anywhere along a meridian?
YES
1 degree of latitude or longitude is about how fare on the earth’s surface at the equator?
60 nautical miles
What are the large divisions of the earth’s crust called?
Tectonic plates
What is the size difference in our moon and the average moon in our solar system?
Our moon is much larger
What does the moon’s gravity produce on earth?
Tides
What are our seasons caused by?
The earth’s tilt
What does the earth’s atmosphere protect us from?
Meteors
Which planet keeps asteroids away from earth?
Jupiter
The word geology literally means the study of what?
The earth
Who is the “Father of geology”?
Charles Lyell
What two men restored support for a young-earth view by writing the book The Genesis Flood?
John Whitcomb and Henry Morris
What Bible event is most in conflict with an old-earth geology viewpoint?
The Flood
How far back are the earliest human records dated?
5,000
B.C.?
According to secular scientists, which formed first: atmospheric oxygen, continents, moon, or oceans?
Moon
How do secular geologists believe the moon was formed?
By a collision
Is the Creation order of events different from the secular idea order of events for how things evolved?
YES
What does the word stratum refer to?
Rock layer
What is radiometric dating used for?
Estimating the exact age of rocks
The science of studying rocks is called what?
Stratography
Which doesn’t belong: span, eon, epoch, age
Span
What has been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined?
Magnetic crystals
What is a type of circular reasoning?
Using index fossils to to date rocks
What causes earthquakes?
Slipping faults, volcano eruptions, or landslides
What’s an example of tension force?
Exerting pressure on a rope
What type of boundary does subduction take place at?
Convergent boundaries
What is the difference between a joint and a fault?
Movement
Where are most major faults in the US found?
Mountain ranges
What is a type of dip-slip fault?
A reverse fault
What is the name of the longest strike-slip fault in Southern California?
San Andreas fault
What are aftershocks?
Secondary small earthquakes
Where do seismic waves travel?
On the surface, in the earth not in the core, through the earth in the core
What are two specific names of surface waves?
Rayleigh waves
Love waves
What is the highest mountain in the world?
Mt. Everest
What is isostasy?
The balance of the weights of rock, water, and ice, and the upward force of the mantle
What is elevation?
Meters or feet above average or mean sea level
What mountain in North America has the highest elevation?
Mt. McKinley
What kind of region would have the greatest relief?
Mountains and valleys
What continent has the highest mountains in the world?
Asia
Where can mountains be?
Underwater, on continents or islands
What is the longest mountain system on earth?
The Mid Atlantic Ridge
Where does sea floor spreading occur?
Mid ocean ridges
The Sierra Nevada mountains are what specific kind of mountain range?
Fault-block mountains
What are volcanoes made of?
Igneous rock
What did the term volcano come from?
A roman god
How does a volcano begin?
When magma comes through a fumarole in the ground
Where does pillow lava form?
Underwater
What is a lahar?
A volcanic mudslide
What’s the order from smallest to largest of pyroclastic materials?
Ash
Cinder
Bomb
Which doesn’t belong: ash, cinder, tephra, travertine
Travertine
What’s the base or the first step of the food chain around black smokers deep,on the ocean floor
Bacteria
What’s the most common kind of volcano?
Stratovolcanoes
Young earth creationists know most volcanoes formed during or shortly after what event?
The Flood