Science Quiz 13

What kind of fossils disappear abruptly, yet are still alive today?

• living

• index

• petrified

• mold

When continuous strata are missing one or more layers, what is the gap called?

• unconformity

• uniformity

• geologic column

• index

What was the name of the lobe-finned fish fossil thought to be the ancestor of the first amphibians?

• coelacanth

• Knightia

• Canis Lupus

• Nihilo

What is a technique used by evolutionists to assign "absolute" ages to rocks and fossils?

• radiometric dating

• geologic column

• circular reasoning

• carbon-14 dating

What historical event probably formed most of the fossils in the earth?

• Ice Age

• Flood

• extinction

• asteroid strikes earth

What is the general term for fossils that evolutionists use to identify the supposed ages of rock layers?

• index fossils

• carbon-14 dating

• radiometric dating

• geologic column

What term describes an organism showing no change between its appearance in the fossil record and at the present day?

• stasis

• anomalies

• epochs

• eon

What method do evolutionists use to date organic materials like preserved bones, skin, or hair?

• carbon-14 dating

• geologic column

• circular reasoning

• index fossils

What is the logic error in which the "proof" of an idea depends on the assumption that the idea is true?

• circular reasoning

• anomalies

• misplaced strata

• dating assumptions

What term describes the amount of time needed for half of a parent element to decay into its daughter element?

• half-life

• radiometric dating

• dating assumptions

• circular reasoning