Earth Origins
A Christian worldview is based on this.
What is the Bible?
This, the thinnest layer of the earth, is thinner under the oceans than under continents.
What is the crust?
Fault slipping, volcanic eruption, and landslides might all cause this natural disaster.
What is an earthquake?
Scientists study the size, shape, and pattern of these particles, crystals, and fossils to help identify rocks.
What are grains?
The highest point on a hill or mountain.
What is a summit?
This is another term for the beliefs that make up a person's worldview.
What are presuppositions?
This was the most significant physical event in earth's history besides Creation.
What is the Flood?
A seismologist might use this scale to measure the magnitude of an earthquake.
What is the Richter scale?
These rocks have changed from their original form.
What is metamorphic?
The height of a mountain from sea-level to summit.
What is elevation?
This is the commandment to study and use the earth to glorify God.
What is the Creation Mandate?
This is the earth's thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
The MMI scale measures the ______ of an earthquake.
What is destruction?
This type of rock is related to volcanoes.
What is igneous?
The differences in elevation in a particular areas.
What is topography?
This is the secular theory for the origin of the universe.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
Scientists believe that the earth's core is composed mostly of this mineral.
What is iron?
While the focus of an earthquake is it's center of activity, this locates the point on earth's surface directly above.
What is the epicenter?
A diamond would measure a 10 (meaning very hard) on this scale.
What is the Mohs scale?
The height of a mountain from its base to summit.
What is actual height?
While old-earth secular geologists currently believe that it is about 4-5 billion years, young-earth creationists know that it about 6000-7000 years.
What is the earth's age?
This is the study of the earth's bedrock, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains.
What is tectonics?
Found mainly in mountain ranges, these differ from joints by involving visible movement of rocks.
What are faults?
This type of rock is most closely tied to the process of erosion.
What is sedimentary?
This is a large flat-topped hill.
What is a mesa?