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Grade 8: Chapter 5 Practice Test

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1.
2 points
Which of the following features that exist today do secular scientists believe formed first?
2.
2 points
The order of events in the Genesis Creation account is the same as the order in which secular scientists believe things have evolved.
3.
2 points
According to most secular geologists, which of these was caused by a collision?
4.
2 points
The ___________ was the most significant physical event in the earth's history other than Creation.
5.
3 points
In which levels of the diluvial geologic column would you expect to find few or no fossils?
6.
3 points
Most secular and young-earth geologists accept the plate tectonics theory, but they usually disagree on which parts?
7.
2 points
Geologists estimate an absolute age for a rock by using tectonic dating.
8.
2 points
Pangaea is the theoretical supercontinent while _______________ is the theoretical global sea. (spelling counts!)
9.
3 points
Which of the following are the three main potential explanations for the origin of the earth? (Only one is acceptable to Christians, but please check the 3 main potential explanations out there.)
10.
2 points
Geologically, the term STRATA means
11.
2 points
The nebular hypothesis has been developed by secular scientists to describe how our solar system came into existence.
12.
2 points
There are 7 major plates and 7 minor plates that make up the Earth, among dozens of smaller plates.
13.
3 points
Which of the following scientists believed in the Bible? (were creationists)
14.
2 points
Geologists determine the relative date of a rock layer by applying the principle of ____________________.
15.
2 points
Which book of the Bible contains the most references to cold weather, snow, and ice?
16.
2 points
Sea-floor spreading is thought to be driven by the movement of the mantle.
17.
2 points
Sea-floor spreading is though to be driven by the movement of
18.
2 points
A problem with the theory of plate tectonics from an evolutionists' worldview is that _____________ would have torn down mountains quicker than they could form.
19.
2 points
An ice age is sometimes called a ____________ period.
20.
3 points
Circular reasoning is a logical error committed by scientists who
21.
2 points
_____________ occurs when one tectonic plate slides beneath another, often forming a trench.
22.
2 points
Based on what we see today, we expect layers of sedimentary rock strata laid underwater to be completely flat, but they can be tilted or ________, or even both.
23.
2 points
The geosyncline theory is popular with geologists today because it CLEARLY explains how mountains formed.
24.
2 points
In Wegener's continental drift theory, he suggested there were similar __________ groups at the edges of the continents where they would have supposedly originally "fit together."
25.
3 points
A creationary scientist would use which of the following as an explanation for what caused the extinction of the wooly mammoths?
26.
2 points
Many scientists believe that the large moving plates of the earth's crust are held up by geologic columns.
27.
2 points
According to most secular scientists, the earth's early atmosphere did NOT contain oxygen.
28.
2 points
Many creationary scientists believe that there was a single ice age sometime after the Flood.
29.
2 points
_______________ is the study of the earth's bedrock, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains and the forces that formed them.
30.
2 points
Scientists who study layers of rocks and their relationships are working in a field called
31.
3 points
Which of the following planets raise major questions about how true the commonly accepted model for the origin of the solar system actually is?
32.
3 points
Which of the following are levels of the diluvial geologic column?
33.
2 points
Tectonic plates may be classified as continental or oceanic, but most are a combination of the two.
34.
2 points
The top level of a diluvial geologic column is called
35.
2 points
Secular scientists believe that the Siberian wooly mammoths probably died out during the first ice age (glacial period) around 2.1 billion years ago.
36.
2 points
Noah and his family spent 321 days inside the Ark.
37.
2 points
Lava is another name for molten rock found below the earth's surface.
38.
3 points
Radiometric dating methods include which of the following?
39.
2 points
Runaway subduction is a feature of John Baumgardner's catastrophic plate tectonics theory.
40.
2 points
Which of these has been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined?
41.
2 points
Old-earth geologists expect to find the simplest fossils in the ________ of the geologic column
42.
2 points
The earliest human records date back to almost ____________ years ago.
43.
2 points
Radiometric dating has given ancient ages for rocks that are known to have been formed by volcanoes just a few years before.
44.
3 points
Which of the following are intricate parts of the catastrophic plate tectonics theory?
45.
2 points
Which of the following features that exist today do secular scientists believe formed first?
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