The Changing Earth - Chapter 5 - 3

Most secular and young-earth geologists accept the plate-tectonics theory, but they usually disagree on

• when it happened
• where it happened
• both A and B
• neither A nor B

The ____________ hypothesis has been developed by secular scientists to describe how our solar system can into existence.

• evolution
• creation
• nebular
• tectonic

The planets Mercury, ____________, _____________, and _________________ raise major questions about the validity of the commonly accepted model for the origin of the solar system.

• Earth, Mars, Jupiter
• Venus, Uranus, Neptune
• Mars, Neptune, Jupiter
• Venus Mars, Uranus

Giant moving sections of the earth's crust are called _______________.

• earthquakes
• syncline
• tectonic plates
• subduction

Geologists determine the relative date of a rock layer by applying the principle of _____________.

• counting rings
• sublimination
• superposition
• subduction

The ________ was the most significant physical event in the earth's history other than Creation.

• Easter
• Crucifixtion
• Flood`
• Earthquake

_______________ is the study of the earth's bedrock, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains, and the forces that formed them.

• Tectonics
• Geology
• Vulcanology
• Seismology

_____________ occurs when one tectonic plate slides beneath another often forming a trench.

• Superposition
• Earthquakes
• Subduction
• Tectonics

Pangaea means ___________

• "from nothing"
• theoretical global sea
• "year of the earth"
• theoretical supercontiinent

Panthalassa means

• anno Domini
• theoretical global sea
• "year of the earth"
• "year of the Lord