Rock This Way
When rocks change from one type to another
What is transformation?
Two major biblical events considered most significant by some catastrophists.
What Creation and the Flood?
What is a solid?
This is necessary for deposition to occur.
What is a load?
The imprint or shape of a once-living organism
Major contributing factors of creating a metamorphic rock.
What are heat and pressure?
Describe the beginning of the earth as stated by a creationist and an evolutionist.
C=God created in 6 days with rest on the 7th
E=A big bang created earth/every living thing comes from one simple organism
The difference between speed and velocity.
What is direction?
Vertical sequence of major rock layers.
What is the geologic column/
What is significant about the Cambrian and the Cretaceous periods?
Both are major fossil-bearing periods.
Cambrian-has largest collection
Cretaceous-includes larger vertebrates such as dinosaurs
The way igneous rock cools affects this.
What is the grain size?
Define uniformitarianism
Belief that geological process occur today in the same manner as always - over long periods of time
Newton's Third Law
What is for every reaction, there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Top three causes of erosion.
What are weight, wind, and water?
Type of fossil represented by trail markings left behind from a snake
What is trace fossil?
Basic rock types (igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary) are made from these materials.
What are chemicals, elements, and minerals?
Define catastrophism and neo-catastrophism
C-belief that geologic changes occurred from disastrous events
N-combination of uniformitarianism and catastrophism (shaped by sudden disasters and gradual process)
Family on periodic table that is most stable.
What are Noble gasses?
The processes in which wind-blown sand particles knock new particles loose and move them along the ground.
What are weathering and erosion?
Type of fossil that an insect preserved in tree sap or amber represents.
What is a resin fossil?
Type of rocks with grains arranged in layers, or bands
What are foliated?
Three main topics evolutionists and creationists focus on regarding origin of life.
1. existence and involvement of God
2. age of the earth
3. whether all organisms stem from a common ancestor and have developed into multiple species since that time
Phases of the moon
What are full moon, waning gibbous, third (last) quarter, waning crescent, new moon, waxing crescent, first quarter, and waxing gibbous?
Three ways water is effective at breaking down and eroding rock.
1. water dissolves minerals
2. water penetrates and applies pressure
3. water enlarges cracks in rocks by freezing
4. water flows easily
What is a mold fossil?