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Apologia General Science Module 8

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are fossils that are assumed to represent a certain period in earth's past?

a)

geological column

b)

index fossils

c)

paraconformity

2.

What do we call a theoretical picture in which layers of rock from around the world are mashed together into a single, unbroken record of earth's past?

a)

geological column

b)

paraconformity

c)

index fossil

3.

A paraconformity is an unconformity for which no evidence exists, true or false?

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Whish viewpoint (uniformitarianism or catastrophism) requires the existence of paraconformities?

a)

Neither

b)

Both

c)

Uniformitarianism

d)

Catastrophism

5.

Which viewpoint has a problem with the following statement "there are too many fossils in the fossil record"?

a)

Uniformitarianism

b)

Catastrophism

6.

The data from the Mt. St Helen's eruption indicates that the major geological formations we see today can be formed quickly as a result of catastrophes, true or false?

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Which viewpoint has a hard time explaining fossils such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex bone that contain soft tissue?

a)

uniformitarianism

b)

catastrophism

8.

Which viewpoint has a hard time explaining index fossils that were once thought extinct but now we know are not?

a)

uniformitarianism

b)

catastrophism

9.

Which viewpoint would have a hard time offering a good explanation of the existence of unconformities between rock layers laid down by a flood?

a)

uniformitarianism

b)

catastrophism

10.

Is the geological column a real thing?

a)

yes

b)

no

11.

Fossils always require a long time ( thousands or millions of years) to form, true or false?

a)

True

b)

False