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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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Know the 3 foundational points of a Christian worldview

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Creation, fall and curse, redemption

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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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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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What comes first in the scientific process?

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Stating the hypothesis

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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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What’s an example of a mixture?

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Sweet tea

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What’s an example of a pure substance?

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Solid aluminum

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What has a fixed volume but not a definite shape?

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A liquid

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

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Temperature

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What is a fluid?

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Any substance that flows

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What particles posses the most energy?

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Plasma particles

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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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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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How would a globe be most accurate?

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By showing the true shape of the continent

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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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What does a cartographer do?

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They make maps

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What are the cardinal directions?

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North, south, east, and west

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What degrees latitude is the equator?
0 degrees latitude
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How did educated people before Christ know that the earth was round?
Lunar eclipses
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What is the highest possible longitude reading?
180 degrees
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Where does the international dateline pass through?
Western Pacific Ocean
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Is a degree of latitude the same anywhere along a meridian?
YES
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1 degree of latitude or longitude is about how fare on the earth's surface at the equator?
60 nautical miles
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What are the large divisions of the earth's crust called?
Tectonic plates
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What is the size difference in our moon and the average moon in our solar system?
Our moon is much larger
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What does the moon's gravity produce on earth?
Tides
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What are our seasons caused by?
The earth's tilt
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What does the earth's atmosphere protect us from?
Meteors
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Which planet keeps asteroids away from earth?
Jupiter
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The word geology literally means the study of what?
The earth
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Who is the "Father of geology"?
Charles Lyell
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What two men restored support for a young-earth view by writing the book The Genesis Flood?
John Whitcomb and Henry Morris
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What Bible event is most in conflict with an old-earth geology viewpoint?
The Flood
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How far back are the earliest human records dated?
5,000 B.C.?
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According to secular scientists, which formed first: atmospheric oxygen, continents, moon, or oceans?
Moon
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How do secular geologists believe the moon was formed?
By a collision
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Is the Creation order of events different from the secular idea order of events for how things evolved?
YES
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What does the word stratum refer to?
Rock layer
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What is radiometric dating used for?
Estimating the exact age of rocks
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The science of studying rocks is called what?
Stratography
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Which doesn't belong: span, eon, epoch, age
Span
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What has been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined?
Magnetic crystals
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What is a type of circular reasoning?
Using index fossils to to date rocks
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What causes earthquakes?
Slipping faults, volcano eruptions, or landslides
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What's an example of tension force?
Exerting pressure on a rope
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What type of boundary does subduction take place at?
Convergent boundaries
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What is the difference between a joint and a fault?
Movement
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Where are most major faults in the US found?
Mountain ranges
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What is a type of dip-slip fault?
A reverse fault
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What is the name of the longest strike-slip fault in Southern California?
San Andreas fault
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What are aftershocks?
Secondary small earthquakes
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Where do seismic waves travel?
On the surface, in the earth not in the core, through the earth in the core
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What are two specific names of surface waves?
Rayleigh waves | Love waves
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What is the highest mountain in the world?
Mt. Everest
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What is isostasy?
The balance of the weights of rock, water, and ice, and the upward force of the mantle
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What is elevation?
Meters or feet above average or mean sea level
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What mountain in North America has the highest elevation?
Mt. McKinley
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What kind of region would have the greatest relief?
Mountains and valleys
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What continent has the highest mountains in the world?
Asia
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Where can mountains be?
Underwater, on continents or islands
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What is the longest mountain system on earth?
The Mid Atlantic Ridge
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Where does sea floor spreading occur?
Mid ocean ridges
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The Sierra Nevada mountains are what specific kind of mountain range?
Fault-block mountains
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What are volcanoes made of?
Igneous rock
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What did the term volcano come from?
A roman god
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How does a volcano begin?
When magma comes through a fumarole in the ground
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Where does pillow lava form?
Underwater
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What is a lahar?
A volcanic mudslide
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What's the order from smallest to largest of pyroclastic materials?
Ash Cinder Bomb
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Which doesn't belong: ash, cinder, tephra, travertine
Travertine
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What's the base or the first step of the food chain around black smokers deep,on the ocean floor
Bacteria
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What's the most common kind of volcano?
Stratovolcanoes
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Young earth creationists know most volcanoes formed during or shortly after what event?
The Flood

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