Earth Science - Chap 4 : Quiz Questions
The ______ _ Christmas Eve broadcast from lunar orbit in 1968 shocked many in the scientific community because of its quotation from Genesis 1.
Apollo 8
What scientist summarized the view of uniformitarianism as the present is the key to the past?
Charles Lyell
Who is considered to be the "Father if Geology"?
Charles Lyell
All scientists believe that the _____ is regular and predictable.
Earth
The _____ is the biblical event that would be in the most conflict with an old earth geology view point.
Flood
Who restored support for a young-earth view of geology by writing The Genesis Flood in 1961?
John Whitcomb and Henry Morris
Which planet's gravity is most responsible for keeping asteroids away from Earth?
Jupiter
The ___ si found at the bottom of the crust.
Moho
Geologists that study earthquake waves are known as ____________.
Seismologist
_____ evolution is a compromise belief that proposes that God uses biological evolution to allow life to develop on the Earth.
Theistic
_______ and how rare a resource is can make it valuable or precious.
Usefulness
If a natural resource has been located and identified and is currently being used it is called _____ ______.
actual resource
Some _________ and some nonbiological natural resources are renewable.
biological
The ____ material is denser than mantle material.
core
The ________ is the thinnest layer of the Earth.
crust
The earth's _____ is thinner under oceans than under continents.
crust
The old-earth's history-such as assigning ages to rocks that extends far back into is called the _____-____ viewpoint.
deep-time
The earth's orbit is best described as an ______.
ellipse
The clearest evidence that life in the world today is out of balance is that species go ______.
extinct
______ collect data from earthquakes waves to model the earth's interior.
geologist
Scientists believe that the earth's core is composed mostly of ___.
iron
Earth's interior helps protect life on its surface by being the source of a ______ _____ surrounding the earth.
magnetic field
The earth's _______ _____ protects us from harmful radiation particles that are streaming through space.
magnetic field
Among other things, the earth's atmosphere protects us from ______.
meteors
Our ____ is much larger than the average moon in our solar system
moon
The "lesser light to rule the night" in Genesis 1 refers to the ____.
moon
What do many modern geologists call themselves to show that they do not believe that the earth's geologic history was uniform through time?
neocatastrophists
Classifying geologic research can be ______ or historical.
operational
The ____ _______ theory can be explained within a young-earth worldview. It has been used to explain how the continents were separated.
plate tectonics
One way to conserve a nonrenewable resource while still using it is to _____ it for reuse.
recycle
A resource manager who is concerned with sustainable yields would be working with a ______ ______.
renewable resource
The earth's surface temperature, ocean currants, and wind patterns, and even the cycles of animal and plant life depend on the speed of the earth's _______.
rotation
Our________are most directly caused by Earth's tilt.
seasons
_____ geologists currently believe that the earth's age is 4-5 billion.
secular
According to a _______ ____ of the earth, its solar system, and universe, our planet and its star are quite ordinary.
secular view
Scientists theorize about what is inside the earth by studying the movement of ______ waves as they pass through the earth.
seismic
The earth's crust is made up of large divisions known as _______ ____.
tectonic plates
The moon's gravity produces _____ on the Earth.
tides
This strange property of_____helps animals survive cold winters in a pond because it floats when it become solid.
water
The Flood of Noah's time was ____ ____ in its extent.
world wide
____ ____ creationists believe that the earth's age is about 6,000-7,000 yrs old.
young earth
