test 5

Question 1

chimpanzee-like fossil species that includes “Lucy”

Answer 1

Afarensis

Question 2

Chimpanzee-like “missing link” whose name means “handy man”

Answer 2

Homo habilis

Question 3

“upright man”

Answer 3

Homo erectus

Question 4

Human “ancestor” who was fully human but probably had rickets

Answer 4

Neanderthal man

Question 5

Species of Java man

Answer 5

Homo erectus

Question 6

Supposed early human fossil lost during WWII

Answer 6

Perking man

Question 7

modern man’s classification

Answer 7

Homo Sapiens

Question 8

Supposed human ancestor that was originally reconstructed from a few teeth and bone fragments and is now known to have resembled an orangutan

Answer 8

Rampithecus

Question 9

A fossil that extends through multiple strata is called a(n) _____________.

Answer 9

polystrate

Question 10

According to evolution, there should be many fossils that show signs of transforming from one kind into another. such fossils, if they existed, would be called transition forms or _____________.

Answer 10

Intermediates

Question 11

The false belief that God initially created life and then used evolutionary processes to complete his work is called _________ evolution.

Answer 11

Theistic

Question 12

in the evolutionary interpretation of the fossil record, period are subdivided into units called _________.

Answer 12

epochs

Question 13

The false belief that all geologic processes have always preceded at the same rate is known as ___________.

Answer 13

uniformitarianism

Question 14

evolutionist created a hypothetical time scale called the _________ to summarize and graphically illustrate their idea of earths history.

Answer 14

geological column

Question 15

A supposedly highly evolved fossil found in “old“ strata or a supposedly simple fossil in “recent” strata is called a(n) __________.

Answer 15

anomaly

Question 16

The false “ human ancestors” that was developed from a tooth known to have belonged to an extinct type of peccary was ___________ man.

Answer 16

Nebraska

Question 17

Unusual bird considered a transitional form between reptiles and birds

Answer 17

Archaeopteryt

Question 18

Extinct fish considered a transitional form between fish and tetrapods

Answer 18

Tikaalik

Question 19

Living deep-sea fish once thought to be the ancestor of the first amphibians

Answer 19

Coelecanth

Question 20

Supposed transitional from between amphibians and reptiles

Answer 20

Seymouria

Question 21

Belief that the universe and life originated by natural processes over billions of years

Answer 21

evolution

Question 22

Animal or plant that disappears abruptly from the fossil record but is still alive today

Answer 22

living fossils

Question 23

Term that refers to the volume of the portion of the skull that contains the brain

Answer 23

cranial capacity

Question 24

Believe that God called the universe and all that is in it into existence out of nothing

Answer 24

(special) creation

Question 25

Group of supposed early humans that has a name that means “southern apes”

Answer 25

Australopitheanes

Question 26

Idea that one or more catastrophes are primarily responsible for Earth’s geological features

Answer 26

catastrophism

Question 27

Living fossil that is a conifer that had only been found in the fossil record until living specimens were discovered in a remote canyon

Answer 27

Wollemi pine

Question 28

type of fossil that forms when an entire animal is preserved nearly intact by freezing, desiccation, or entrapment in a bog or tar pit

Answer 28

Whole-spelection

Question 29

What Is the idea that the fittest and strongest of each species are more likely to survive and reproduce than weaker or unfit members of the species

Answer 29

Natural selection

Question 30

The technique that evolutionists use to assign “absolute” ages to rocks and fossils is __________.

Answer 30

Radiometric dating

Question 31

The sudden appearance of life in the lower rock layers of the fossil record is called the ___________________.

Answer 31

Cambrian explosion

Question 32

Evolution was popularized by the work of 19th century British naturalist _________________.

Answer 32

Charles Darwin

Question 33

When continuous strata are missing one or more layers that are predicted by evolution, the gap is called an ______________.

Answer 33

unconformity

Question 34

The fossils that formed when animals or plants that were rapidly buried by water and sediments had their organic particles replaced by rock are __________ fossils.

Answer 34

petrified

Question 35

The supposed starting point of cosmic evolution is the __________ event.

Answer 35

Big bang

Question 36

The second-largest divisions of the geologic column are called __________.

Answer 36

eras

Question 37

The logic error that occurs when the “proof” of an idea depends upon the assumption that the idea is true is called __________________.

Answer 37

circular reasoning