Sciens Exames Flashcards
T or F the geosyncline theory is popular with geologists today because it clearly explains how mountains formed
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T or F he woolly mammoth that died in the far north probably were rapidly buried in vast dust storms late in the ice age
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T or F The species that we see today are the same species that Noah released from the ark
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T or F The flood waters had to cover the highest hill by more than 15 cubits so that the ark wouldn’t hit the bottom during the early stages
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T or F Methuselah died the same year the flood began
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T or F Radio metric dating has given ancient ages of rocks that are known to have been formed by volcanoes just a fey years before
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T or F The largest standard unit of time in the secular geologic column is the eon
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T orF Secular geologists believe that the Siberian woolly mammoth probably died out during the first major ice age, 2.1 billion years ago
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T orF the genealogies of geniuses and exodus cover more than half of the earths history
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T or F according to most secular scientists, the earths early atmosphere did not contain oxygen
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T or F Many creationary scientists believe that there was a signal ice age sometime after the flood
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T or F the mid ocean ridges are locations for plate subduction
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T or F Gis stands for global interaction
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T orF aA topographic map mainly shows variations of land elevation
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T or F a state map that you might use to find your way around while on vacation is a standard map that contains both political and geographical information
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T orF most maps in use are just a small section of a much larger map projection
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T or F the first use of GPS was by the U.S. Military in combat
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T orF our GPS is based on constellation of four satellites, strategically placed around the earth
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T or F a map legend describes the historical and mythical origins of the map
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T or F minutes and seconds were first Defined as subdivision of degrees, and later were borrowed to use as u nets of time
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The international date line directly follows the 180deg meridian
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T or F parallels measures latitude north south of the equator
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T orF The cardinal direction point exactly half way between north, east south, and west
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T orF in comparison to a map of the United States, a map showing just the streets in your neighborhood would be a small scale map
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T or F no map can show every detail in the earths surface
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T or F t a Christian who holds to the progressive creation view of the earths history, the bible is mor authoritative than secular science
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T or F An oblique of a city is more realistic but is less useful for mapping purposes compared to looking straight down
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T or F makes used by sailors to navigate at sea are properly called charts
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T or F all compounds are made of molecules, but not all molecules represent a compound
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T or F the term atone comes from the Greek word for invisible
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T or F potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy
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T orF kinetic and potential energy are forms of mechanical energy
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T or F physicist have observed dark matter many times. They they just don’t know how to measure it yet
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T or F friction is a kind of force
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T or F Your mass would be less on the moon than it is on the earth
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T or F one of the metric United of volume is the cubic liter
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T or F the sun and the stars are made of molecular gases
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T or F most substances freeze around 0c
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T or F according to the bible, a day in genesis 1 could have been 24 hours, a thousand years, or more
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T or F The Big Bang theory cannot give a good explanation for the existence of galaxies
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T orF if a natural resource has been located and identified bit is not currently being used, it is called an actual resource
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T or F managing a renewable resource requires knowing how fast it can be replaced
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T or F a Christine should not be conserved about a species becoming extinct since only man is made in gods image
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T or F The plate tectonics theory can be expect since only man is made in gods image
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T or F all scientists believe that the earth is regular and predictable
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T orF the flood of Noah’s time was world wide in its extent
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T or F Gravity and magnetic sensors can help define the shape of structures deep in the earths interior to its core
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T or F The mantle material is denser than the core material
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T or F earths interior helps protect life on its surface by being the source of a strong magnetic field surrounding the earth
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T or F the earth is the only body in our solar system that has an atmosphere
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T orF the earth’s orbit is best described an an ellipse
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T or F the earths moon is not unusual compared to most other moons since it is airless and pockmarks by craters
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Molten rock
Magma
Year of the lord
Anno domini
Year of the earth theory
Anno mundi
Theoretical supercontinent
Pangea
Theoretical global sea
Panthalassa
From nothing
Ex nihilo
Droplets of water from on the outside of a chilled drink
Condensation
Ice cube shrink while in the freezer
Freezing
Frost forms overnight on your cars windshield
Deposition
The surface of a pond becomes solid enough to hold skaters in the winter
Freezing
Gasoline disappears from an open can left in the sun
Vaporization
Catastrophic plate tectonics resulted in rapid movement of plates in a _________ time
Short
Most secular and young earth geologists accept the plate tectonics theory but they usually disagree on
When it happened
Sea floor spreading is thought to be driven by movements of
The mantle
If you were a geologist interested in studying the earth’s most recently formed crust where would you go
The rift at mid ocean ridge
Alfred Wegener was a German meteorologist and geophysicist who proposed the
Continental displacement theory
Geosyncline are
Small folds of strata in rock
In which level of a diluvial geologic column would you expect to find in the greatest number and variety of fossils
The flood
The bottom level of a diluvial geologic column would be
The creation event
A creationary scientists explanation for what caused the extinction of the wooly mammoth
Plate tectonics
Which book of the bible contains the most references to cold wether, snow, and ice
Job
Which one of the following is a creationary scientist who studies meteorology and proposed a hypothesis on how a single ice age could have after the flood
Michael oard
About how many kinds of animals were likely on the ark during the biblical flood
5000
How long did Noah and his family’s been inside the ark
377 days
The flood described in the book of Genesis marked the beginning of all _______
Civilizations
Circular reasoning is a logical error committed by scientists who use ________ fossils to date rocks
Index
Radio metric dating methods do not include the
Tree ring counting method
which of the following is necessary for a glacial. To begin
A rapid cooling of continents surrounded by very warm oceans
which one of the following four terms does not belong with the other three : span, eon, epoch, age
Span
Which of these has been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined
Magnetic crystals
Scientists who study layers of rocks and their relationships are working in a field called
Stratigraphy
Geologists estimate and absolute age for a rock by using
Radiometric dating
Geologically, the term stratum refers to
A layer of rock
Secular geologists believe Pangaea was
Made of many continental plates
The order of events and the Genesis creation account is_______ the order in which secular scientists believe things have evolved.
Different from
Which of the following views does the framework hypothesis of creation support?
God created all things but we do not know how
According to most secular geologist, which of these was caused by a collision
The moon
Which of the following features that exist today do secular scientists believe formed first
The moon
The earliest human records dates back to about
______ years ago
5000
The nuclear change that produces the largest difference in an Adams structure is
Fission
Water is a compound, pure substance, and a _______
Molecule
Which particle can always be found in the nucleus of an any Adam
Proton, electron, or neutron
Proton
The first law of thermodynamics states that
Total energy in the universe is constant
What is operational we defined as the ability to do work
Energy
Which forces is probably the most important to geologists?
Gravity
What is a field force : magnetism or shear?
Magnetism
Which force is responsible for the grinding and wearing away of rock and a glacier moves over it
Friction
True or false: By definition, a force is push or a pull
True
True or false: an object’s weight results from
Its mass and gravity
Leaders, cubic inches, courts, and milliliters are all measures of volume or length?
Volume
Dew drops result from water freezing or condensing?
Condensing
Boiling is form of vaporization or freezing?
Vaporization
In which state of matter do the particles process the most energy: plasma or solid?
Plasma
A substance’s state of matter is most directly affected by its temperature or atomic number?
Temperature
If a substance has a fixed unchanging volume but not a definite shape, it is in the ______ state-liquid or solid
Liquid
Sweetened tea would be an example of a plasma or mixture?
Mixture
What did secular sciences have to invent in order to explain the shapes and arrangements of galaxies in space?
Dark matter or gravity
Dark matter
True or false: The experiments performed by the Large Hadron Collider are an attempt to show how the universe started
True
True or false: the sun releases light energy
True
True or false: The flow of thermal energy from a hot place to a cooler place is called heat
True
True or false: to have kinetic energy, a force must be moving
True
Matter is defined as anything that occupies space and has _________ (density or mass)
Mass
