Ch. 2B Quiz

The scientific study of fossils is called geology.

• True

• False

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Removing a fossil from the rock around it is called mining.

• True

• False

Scientists can make good guesses about the size of an animal by its skeleton.

• True

• False

The outward appearance of modern animals helps scientists determine what an extinct animal might have looked like.

• True

• False

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Creationary and evolutionary scientists depend on their worldviews to date a fossil.

• True

• False

Most fossils were formed by the Flood.

• Creationist

• Evolutionist

Life began with simple one-celled organisms that gradually changed over long periods of time.

• Creationist

• Evolutionist

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Lower rock layers contain simpler forms of life. Upper rock layers contain more advanced forms of life.

• Creationist

• Evolutionist

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The position of a fossil in a rock may show how the animal attempted to avoid the Flood’s waters.

• Creationist

• Evolutionist

The age of a fossil is considered to be the same age as the rock in which it is found.

• Creationist

• Evolutionist

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