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What are the significant layes of the Geologic column?

A

Jurassic
Triassic
Cambrian
Pre-Cambrian

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What is the origin of the Grand Canyon?

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inland sea pushed out sediment

the flood

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According to creationist how many stages did it take to form the Grand Canyon where is the evidence

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2

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What are the points of entry into the Grand Canyon and which one is best for hiking to the river and why?

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North & South Rim

South because it is 1000 ft lower

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What is the width length and depth of the Grand Canyon

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Width- 5 miles
Length- 216 miles
Depth- 1 miles

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Length of Mid-Oceanic Ridge

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46000 miles

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Directionality of North American Plates and EuroAsian Plates

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west
east
pacific

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Collision of plates & consequences

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Ring of Fire
Earthquakes
Volcanoes

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Continental drift vs sprint

A

started sprinting now its drifting

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Hydroplate vs traditional geological tectonic plates

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water under plates vs magma

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Submarine Canyons- What and where are they?

A

gourdges

mouth of hudson and amazon rivers into the ocean

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When could they have originated (Submarine Canyons)

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high altitude and low water lines

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Two potential reasons why they are so deep.

Volume vs Depth

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oceans getting lower, plates are rising and water runs off

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14
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Coal & Oil Formations

Found in unlikely places why?

A

artic & antartica

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Coal & Oil Formations

What could be inferred as to their presence?

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because very little life is there trees that are 100 ft tall

the earth was warmer before the flood

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Methane Hydrates:

What is the origin today of Methane?

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2000 feet deep

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Methane Hydrates:

When and how can methane be stored

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dry ice

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Methane Hydrates:

Where are these hydrates found today?

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Oregon off the coast

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Methane Hydrates:

What is the potential benefit of mining methane hydrates?

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cheap fuel

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How could the Ice Age be initiated

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high land accumulation of show

alot of volcanic activity

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21
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What two ingredients are needed for ice to accumulate?

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warm water

high altitude

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What is the bottom layer of the Grand Canyon and what is supposed to be its index fossil

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PreCambrian

Trilabite

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What is the next layer up and what is the significance of its name

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Cambrian-Plant is what it means

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What is the layer where dinosaurs were supposed to die out?

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Jurassic

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How many total layers are in the Geologic Time Column
13
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What is the evidence in the Grand Canyon points to the presence of a once shallow inland sea
Marine Fossils
27
What is the remnant of that once shallow inland sea in the American Southwest
Salt lake
28
What is the general cause of the Grand Canyon which is agreed on by both Evolutionists and Creationists
rushing water
29
Which planet has an average temperature of 59F
Earth
30
Which planet has an atmosphere consisting of 96% of CO2
Venus
31
Which planet is known as earth's twin in density
Venus
32
Which planet experiences the most intense radiation
Mercury
33
Which planet is known as the red planet
Mars
34
Which planet is the smallest of the planets
Venus
35
Which planet has a solar year of 225 years
Venus
36
Which planet is 93 million miles away from the sun
Earth
37
Which planet has a 24 hour day and was once thought to have life
Mars
38
What does the word planet mean
Wandering Star
39
What planet oscillates in its rotation
Venus
40
What do the planets Mercury and Venus have first in common with each other
limited window of visibility
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Which planet has more than 60 moons with 4 moons that were named by Galileo
Jupiter
42
Which planet spins opposite of the earth
Uranus
43
Which planet emits twice as much energy as it receives from the sun
Neptune
44
Which planet is composed mostly of hydrogen
Saturn
45
What is the largest planet in mass
Jupiter
46
What is the planet with no rotation of its own
Saturn
47
What planet has wind speeds of 450mph
Venus
48
What planet has seasons that are 41 earth years each
Neptune
49
What gas planet emits radio frequencies in its magnetic field
Jupiter
50
What 2 spacecraft gave us our first distance view of our planet
Voyager 1 | Voyager 2
51
What does SETI mean
Search for Extra Terrestrial Inteligence
52
Who made important astronomical discoveries between 1921 & 1926
Hubble
53
What generates a protective magnetic field essential to complex life
liquid iron
54
Whom did Copernicus say was responsible for the "mechanism of the universe"?
Supremely Good & Orderly Creator
55
What is the proposed center of our galaxy
black hole
56
Who were the two Greek Scholars that taught the earth sat motionless while everything else revolved around it
Aristotle & Ptolmy
57
Into what principle did the Copernican Principle "evolve" into
Principle of Medeocracy
58
What is the new science that has emerged from the SETI program
Astrobiology
59
What book did Donald Brownlee write
Rare Earth
60
In what two ways are stars measured by
lumens & size
61
What is a lumen
1 candlelight
62
What has the brightest luminosity in our solar system
sun
63
What is the brightest satellite in our solar system
moon
64
What is the brightest planet in our solar system
Jupiter
65
In what are the stars measured regarding their distance to eachother
degrees

Basic Science Survey 1 (4 decks)

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