BJU Biology Chapter 8 Test

If a child were born with natural musical ability because the mother had taken piano lessons, this would illustrate the theory of

• use and disuse

• need

• mutations

• inheritance of acquired characteristics

According to many current Flood models, the possible source(s) of the water include

• superheated steam from volcanoes condensing to form rain

• water produced by comet impacts on the earth

• an outpouring of water from beneath the earth's surface

• all of the above

• A and C only

The most common type of identifiable fossils is

• preserved hard parts of animals and plants

• preserved carbon in the form of coal

• petrified fossils

• frozen fossils

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Which of the following is not a reason to believe in the universality of the Genesis Flood?

• The covenant God made with Noah (that such a flood would never happen again) would have been broken every time there was a local flood

• It rained forty days and forty nights

• There are New Testament references to a worldwide flood

• The purpose of the Flood was to destroy all creatures from the face of the earth.

Which is not true of the carbon-14 cycle?

• Carbon-14 is formed when cosmic radiation bombards nitrogen in the upper atmosphere

• Carbon-14 enters living organisms

• Carbon-14 remains trapped in organisms longer than carbon-12

• Carbon-14 combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide

Which of the following would a Creationist not agree with?

• Genesis is a literal description of Creation

• The Bible is the inspired Word of God

• Science is a means to determine all truth

• The Fall is the cause of all of mankind's problems

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A fossil that spans several layers of rock is called

• stratified

• polystrate

• longitudinal

• petrified

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The age of the earth is probably between

• 6000 and 7500 years

• 10,000 and 20,000 years

• several hundred thousand and several million years

• several million and several billion years

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The fact that many organisms produce more offspring than can actually survive is an important part of the theory developed by

• Darwin

• Lamarck

• De Vries

• Marx

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That Adam was able to take care of himself and eat fruit from trees when he was created supports a belief in

• half-life theories of dating

• creation with apparent age

• the ability to date by decay and buildup

• the gap theory