Diagnostic test 1: (Catastrophism vs uniformitarianism)

Earth's features are due to small-scale processes.

• Catastrophism

• uniformitarianism

It is the theory that explains the changes in the Earth's crust during geological history as a result of sudden violent and unusual events

• catastrophism

• uniformitarianism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Earth's features are accounted over a large period of time

• catastrophism

• uniformitarianism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

James Hutton

• uniformitarianism

• catastrophism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Baron Georges Cuvier

• catastrophism

• uniformitarianism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

It is not influenced by theory

• uniformitarianism

• catastrophism

It is due features are accounted over a relatively short amount of time.

• catastrophism

• uniformitarianism

Earth only a few thousand years old?

• catastrophism

• uniformitarianism

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

Earth it must be billions of years old

• catastrophism

• uniformitarianism

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

William Whenwel the first used in 1832; the Alternative explanation for the origin of the Earth

• uniformitarianism

• catastrophism