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Fall Semester Exam! Flashcards

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Is ridiculing a secular scientist because he believes the earth is 4.5 billion years old applying the CM?

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NO

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Know the Creation Mandate

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God’s command for man to take care of the earth

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2
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Know the 3 foundational points of a Christian worldview

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Creation, fall and curse, redemption

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3
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What is a worldview based on?

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Presuppositions

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Do creationary and evolutionary scientists interpret the same data the same way?

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NO

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Know what a scientific model is

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Models explain, describe, or represent something in the world

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6
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Know what theory a singularity is important to

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Big Bang Theory

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Should a hypothesis be complicated?

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NO

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What are two examples of models?

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Hypothesis and laws

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9
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What comes first in the scientific process?

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Stating the hypothesis

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10
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What is the LHC trying to show?

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How the universe started

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What is matter?

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Anything that occupies space and has mass

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12
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What’s an example of a mixture?

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Sweet tea

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13
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What’s an example of a pure substance?

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Solid aluminum

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14
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What has a fixed volume but not a definite shape?

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A liquid

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15
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What is a substance’s state of matter mostly affected by?

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Temperature

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16
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What is a fluid?

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Any substance that flows

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17
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What particles posses the most energy?

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Plasma particles

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18
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What would be used to find the weight of an object?

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A spring scale

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19
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What are some examples of measures of volume?

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Quarts, gallons, cubic inches, liters, milliliters, cubic meters, cubic centimeters

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20
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How would a globe be most accurate?

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By showing the true shape of the continent

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21
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When do the earliest maps in existence date back to?

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The times of ancient Babylonia

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22
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What does a cartographer do?

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They make maps

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23
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What are the cardinal directions?

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North, south, east, and west

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24
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What degrees latitude is the equator?

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0 degrees latitude

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25
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How did educated people before Christ know that the earth was round?

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Lunar eclipses

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26
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What is the highest possible longitude reading?

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180 degrees

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27
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Where does the international dateline pass through?

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Western Pacific Ocean

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28
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Is a degree of latitude the same anywhere along a meridian?

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YES

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29
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1 degree of latitude or longitude is about how fare on the earth’s surface at the equator?

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60 nautical miles

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30
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What are the large divisions of the earth’s crust called?

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Tectonic plates

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31
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What is the size difference in our moon and the average moon in our solar system?

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Our moon is much larger

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32
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What does the moon’s gravity produce on earth?

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Tides

33
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What are our seasons caused by?

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The earth’s tilt

34
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What does the earth’s atmosphere protect us from?

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Meteors

35
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Which planet keeps asteroids away from earth?

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Jupiter

36
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The word geology literally means the study of what?

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The earth

37
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Who is the “Father of geology”?

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Charles Lyell

38
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What two men restored support for a young-earth view by writing the book The Genesis Flood?

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John Whitcomb and Henry Morris

39
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What Bible event is most in conflict with an old-earth geology viewpoint?

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The Flood

40
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How far back are the earliest human records dated?

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5,000

B.C.?

41
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According to secular scientists, which formed first: atmospheric oxygen, continents, moon, or oceans?

A

Moon

42
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How do secular geologists believe the moon was formed?

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By a collision

43
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Is the Creation order of events different from the secular idea order of events for how things evolved?

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YES

44
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What does the word stratum refer to?

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Rock layer

45
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What is radiometric dating used for?

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Estimating the exact age of rocks

46
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The science of studying rocks is called what?

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Stratography

47
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Which doesn’t belong: span, eon, epoch, age

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Span

48
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What has been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined?

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Magnetic crystals

49
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What is a type of circular reasoning?

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Using index fossils to to date rocks

50
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What causes earthquakes?

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Slipping faults, volcano eruptions, or landslides

51
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What’s an example of tension force?

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Exerting pressure on a rope

52
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What type of boundary does subduction take place at?

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Convergent boundaries

53
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What is the difference between a joint and a fault?

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Movement

54
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Where are most major faults in the US found?

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Mountain ranges

55
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What is a type of dip-slip fault?

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A reverse fault

56
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What is the name of the longest strike-slip fault in Southern California?

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San Andreas fault

57
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What are aftershocks?

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Secondary small earthquakes

58
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Where do seismic waves travel?

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On the surface, in the earth not in the core, through the earth in the core

59
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What are two specific names of surface waves?

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Rayleigh waves

Love waves

60
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What is the highest mountain in the world?

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Mt. Everest

61
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What is isostasy?

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The balance of the weights of rock, water, and ice, and the upward force of the mantle

62
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What is elevation?

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Meters or feet above average or mean sea level

63
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What mountain in North America has the highest elevation?

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Mt. McKinley

64
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What kind of region would have the greatest relief?

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Mountains and valleys

65
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What continent has the highest mountains in the world?

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Asia

66
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Where can mountains be?

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Underwater, on continents or islands

67
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What is the longest mountain system on earth?

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The Mid Atlantic Ridge

68
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Where does sea floor spreading occur?

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Mid ocean ridges

69
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The Sierra Nevada mountains are what specific kind of mountain range?

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Fault-block mountains

70
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What are volcanoes made of?

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Igneous rock

71
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What did the term volcano come from?

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A roman god

72
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How does a volcano begin?

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When magma comes through a fumarole in the ground

73
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Where does pillow lava form?

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Underwater

74
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What is a lahar?

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A volcanic mudslide

75
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What’s the order from smallest to largest of pyroclastic materials?

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Ash
Cinder
Bomb

76
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Which doesn’t belong: ash, cinder, tephra, travertine

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Travertine

77
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What’s the base or the first step of the food chain around black smokers deep,on the ocean floor

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Bacteria

78
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What’s the most common kind of volcano?

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Stratovolcanoes

79
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Young earth creationists know most volcanoes formed during or shortly after what event?

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The Flood

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