Life Science Ch. 5

T. rex teeth found in a fossil graveyard are which kind of fossil?

• carbonized fossil

• mineralized fossil

• original material

• trace fossil

Why do evolutionists and creationists view the history of change in living things differently?

• Creationists believe in changes only in the present, not changes in the past.

• Evolutionists believe in changes only in the past, not changes in the present.

• Living things have not changed in the present or in the past.

• Evolutionists and creationists start with different worldviews.

Darwin’s explanation for the theory of natural selection includes all of the following except

• that individuals in a species compete for the things needed to survive.

• that mutations cause new traits to be formed in a population.

• that some individuals have traits that make them better able to compete.

• that with each new generation, the traits that better allow survival become more common.

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A fossil is found above an igneous rock layer that is dated at 50 million years. Scientists would then conclude that the fossil is

• younger than 50 million years

• older than 50 million years

• 50 million years old

• not able to be dated

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Which method of rock dating can be used only for “young” fossils?

• absolute dating

• carbon-14 dating

• relative dating

• double dating

Because a whale’s flipper and a bat’s wing have similar bone structure, evolutionists refer to the body parts as

• common ancestors

• homologous structures

• transitional forms

• vestigial structures

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Which of the following illustrate(s) problems with the methods of dating rocks?

• A. It is quite common for absolute dating methods to yield ages that are known to be incorrect.

• B. Carbon-14 has been found in fossils considered millions of years old, showing the fossils to be much younger.

• C. both A and B

• D. neither A nor B

Which of the following present(s) a problem for evolutionists attempting to use homologous structures to prove ancestry?

• A. A common designer could also be responsible for the homologous structures that we observe.

• B. Animals do not have homologous structures.

• C. both A and B

• D. neither A nor B

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The Bible teaches that living things were created by God

• A. as unicellular life that needed to evolve.

• B. with millions of years in between each of the six days of Creation.

• C. a few thousand years ago.

• D. a few billion years ago.

Which of the following is not a part of the biblical view of the history of life?

• A. God's original creation was 'very good.'

• B. God created each kind of organism fully formed.

• C. Sickness and death have always been present.

• D. All the air-breathing land animals, except those on the Ark, perished in the Flood.