WorksheetsApologia General Science Module 8
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
What are fossils that are assumed to represent a certain period in earth's past?
geological column
index fossils
paraconformity
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?
geological column
paraconformity
index fossil
A paraconformity is an unconformity for which no evidence exists, true or false?
True
False
Whish viewpoint (uniformitarianism or catastrophism) requires the existence of paraconformities?
Neither
Both
Uniformitarianism
Catastrophism
Which viewpoint has a problem with the following statement "there are too many fossils in the fossil record"?
Uniformitarianism
Catastrophism
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?
True
False
Which viewpoint has a hard time explaining fossils such as the Tyrannosaurus Rex bone that contain soft tissue?
uniformitarianism
catastrophism
Which viewpoint has a hard time explaining index fossils that were once thought extinct but now we know are not?
uniformitarianism
catastrophism
Which viewpoint would have a hard time offering a good explanation of the existence of unconformities between rock layers laid down by a flood?
uniformitarianism
catastrophism
Is the geological column a real thing?
yes
no
Fossils always require a long time ( thousands or millions of years) to form, true or false?
True
False
