Metals
Abundant metal that is the primary ingredient of steel
What is iron
Most common igneous rock
What is basalt
Layer of sedimentary rock
What is stratum (or bed)
Animals and plants that disappear abruptly from the fossil record, yet are still alive today, are know as
What are living fossil
General term for fossils that evolutionists use to identify the supposed ages of rock layers
What is index fossils
Lightweight, silvery metal used to make aircraft parts, automobile wheels, kitchen foil, and soft drink cans
What is aluminum
An igneous rock that formed when magma began cooling slowly but finished cooling more quickly
What is a porphyritic
Branch of geology that is concerned with the origin composiion, and structure of rocks
What is petrology
When continuous strata are missing one or more layers, the gap is called an
What is unconformity
Term describing an organism showing no change between its appearance in the fossil record and at the present day
What is stasis
Used for radiation shielding, automobile batteries and small arms ammunition
What is lead
Hard, round sedimentary rock structures that form when minerals crystallize around a mineral fragment
What is concretions
General term for fuels derived from the remains of onece living things
What are fossil fuels
Lobe-finned fish fossil though to be the ancestor of the firs amphibians
What is a coelacanth
Method evolutionists use to date organic materials like preserved bones, skin, or hair
What is carbon-14 dating
Reddish-orange metal often used for electrical wiring
What is copper
Type of sedimentary rock made from mechanical sediments
What are clastic sedimentary rock
Surfacing mining of coal, the coal is exposed by removing the upper layers of ground
What is overburden
Technique used by evolutionists to assign "absolute" ages to rocks and fossils
What is radiometric dating
The logic error in whioch the "proof" of an idea depends on the assumption that the idea is true
What is circular reasoning
White-gray metal more valuable than gold
What is platinum
Most abundant sedimentary rock
What is shale
Type of sedimentary rock that consists of smooth pebbles in hardened sand or clay
What is conglomerate rock
Historical event that probably formed most of the fossils in the earth
What was the Flood (Genesis)
Term describing the amount of time needed for half of a parent element to decay into its daughter element
What is half-life