Science Test

Question 1

According to young earth geologists, what is the origin of the earth

Answer 1

the earth has always existed or it was supernatually created out of nothing

Question 2

Do any creationary scientis believe that there was a single ice age sometime after the flood

Answer 2

yes

Question 3

The _____ hypotheis has been developed by secular scientists to descrive how our solar syste came into existence

Answer 3

nebular

Question 4

The nebular hypothesis is held by ___ earth geologists

Answer 4

old

Question 5

The _____ hypothesis has been developed by secular scientis to describe how our solar system came into existence

Answer 5

Nebular

Question 6

According to most secular scientists, the earth’s early atmosphere did not contain oxygen

Answer 6

True

Question 7

The existence of the planet _____ raises major questions about the validity of the commonly accepted model for the origin of the solar system

Answer 7

Neptune

Question 8

What means year of the earth

Answer 8

anno mundi

Question 9

What means from nothing

Answer 9

exnihilo

Question 10

What means year of the Lord

Answer 10

Anno domini

Question 11

The order of events in the genesis creation account is _____ the order in which secular scientists believe things have evolved

Answer 11

Different from

Question 12

What are giant mvoing sections of the earth’s crust called

Answer 12

tectionic plates

Question 13

Do we know for certian that it took the atlanitc ocean about 180 million years to form based on the present day motion of tectionic plates

Answer 13

NO

Question 14

What was the theoretical supercontinet called

Answer 14

Pangaea

Question 15

During the proposed ice ages, did large amounts of snow temporanily bild up on the land and compact which fromed deep contintal glaciers

Answer 15

Yes

Question 16

Geologically the term stratum referst to what

Answer 16

multiple layers of rocks

Question 17

Scientists who study layers of rocks and their relationships are working in a field called what

Answer 17

stratigraphy

Question 18

Do many scientist believe that the large moving plates of the earth’s crust are supported by geologic columns

Answer 18

No

Question 18

Do many scientist believe that the large moving plates of the earth’s crust are supported by geologic columns

Answer 18

No

Question 19

Geologist determine the relative date of a rock layer by applying th eprinciple of what

Answer 19

superposition

Question 20

Geologist estimate and absolute age for a rock by using what

Answer 20

radiometric dating

Question 21

Which of these has been used to hypotesize which continetns were a t one time joined

Answer 21

Magnetic

Question 22

________ ______ has given ancient ages for rocks that are known to have been formed by volcanoes just af ew years before

Answer 22

Radometric dating

Question 23

What are some examples of rado metric dating methods

Answer 23

the uranium lead mehtod potassium argon mehtod carbon 14 method

Question 24

_______ ______ is a logical error committed by scientists who use rocks to date fossils dated by the same rocks

Answer 24

circular reasoning

Question 25

What was the most singificant physical even in the earth’s history other than creation

Answer 25

the Flood

Question 26

how did the biblical flood affect the wold and the people

Answer 26

dividing line between originally crated earth beginning of all recorded hujman history outside the Bible Decreased legnth of human life

Question 27

How long did noah and his family spend inside the Ark

Answer 27

about a year

Question 28

a creationary scientis explanation for what caused the extinction of the wooly mammoths

Answer 28

most of the mammoths died from exposure to the artic cold. and a lack of food and rising seas and dust storms

Question 29

what is the natual biological process that produced the many species of animals and plants today from the relatively few kinds on the Arl

Answer 29

speciation

Question 30

What is molten rock that flows from the earth called

Answer 30

lava

Question 31

the ______ ____ of a diluvial geologic column would be the cretion event

Answer 31

very bottom

Question 32

In which level of a dilviial geologic column would you expecgt to find the greatest number and variety of fossils

Answer 32

the flood event

Question 33

what are the five layers of the diluvial gologic coulumn

Answer 33

the creation event. the lost world era. the flood event the new world era Recent sediments

Question 34

what is the study of the earths bedrock earthquakes volcanoes and mountians and the froces that fromed them called

Answer 34

tectonics

Question 35

Is the geosyncline theory popular with geologists today becuase it clearly explains how mountis are formed

Answer 35

No

Question 36

Alfred wedener was a german meterologist and geophysicist who proposed what

Answer 36

the continental dispalacement theory

Question 37

does dea floor spreading occur at mid ocean redges

Answer 37

yes

Question 38

If you were a goelogist interested in studying the eart’s most recently formed crust where would you go

Answer 38

the fift at a mid ocean rdge

Question 39

Sea floor spreading is thought to be dreiven by the movement of what

Answer 39

mantle

Question 40

What is molten rock under the earth’s crust called

Answer 40

magma

Question 41

Can tectonic plates be classified as continttal or oceanic

Answer 41

yes

Question 42

What occurs when one tictionic plate slides beneath another, often forming a trench

Answer 42

subduction

Question 43

Is subduction a paarticualr type of radiometric dating

Answer 43

No

Question 44

Most secular and young earth geologist accept the plate tectonics theory but htye usuallly disagree on what

Answer 44

When it happened

Question 45

Is runaway subduction a fearture of John baumgardener’s catastrophic plate toctonics theory

Answer 45

Yes