Layers of the Earth
Weathering
Tectonic Plates
Erosion
Volcanoes
General
The Bible and Geology
100

The solid, innermost layer of the Earth.

What is the inner core?

100

Name the two different types of weathering.

What are physical (mehanical) and chemical weathering?

100
Tectonic plates are a part of this layer of the Earth.
What is the crust?
100
This is the process by which the surface of the Earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, plants, etc.
What is erosion?
100
A vent in the Earth's crust through which molten rock, ashes and gases are ejected.
What is a volcano?
100

The earliest human records date back to?

What is 5,000 years?

100

The length of time the great flooding rain of Noah's day lasted.

What are 40 days?

200
The layer of the earth that is made mostly of melted iron and nickel.
What is the outer core?
200
acid rain is an example of this type of weathering.
What is chemical weathering?
200
Two tectonic plates that slide by each other.
What is transform or transformation?
200
One examples of erosion that happens rapidly
What are landslides, hurricanes and/or beach erosion?
200
Name one (of two) rapid forces that can change the Earth's surface.
What is an Earthquake and/or volcano?
200

According to secular geologists, it was formed by a collision with a rogue planet into the Earth.

What is the moon?

200

The total time Noah and his family were in the Ark.

What are 377 days?

300
The Earth's crust is divided into constantly moving_______ .
What are tectonic plates
300
List two forces that can change the Earth's surface rapidly.
What are earthquakes and volcanoes?
300
Two tectonic plates that come together.
What is converge or convergent.
300
The laying down of sediment.
What is deposition?
300
This type of volcano has steep sides and an explosive nature.
What is a composite volcano?
300

A layer of rock.  Layers of rock.

What is a stratum/strata?

300

This well-known creationist and meteorologist believes the flood set the stage for an ice age.

Who is Michael Oard?

400
Scientists know that the Earth's inner core is a solid by studying ____________.
What are earthquakes?
400
Give two examples of weathering changing a rock.
What is water, ice, wind, gravity and/or glaciers.
400
Two plates that move apart.
What is diverge or divergent?
400
An example of erosion caused by gravity.
What is a landslide?
400
This type of volcano produces lava slowly and is the type that created islands in Hawaii.
What is a shield volcano?
400

Geologists estimate an absolute age for rock through this method.

What is radiometric dating?

400

This book records events that probably took place before the time of Abraham.  It contains more references to ice, snow, and freezing conditions than any other book of the Bible.

What is Job?

500
The Earth's magnetic field is produced by electrical currents from these layers of the Earth.
What are the inner and outer core?
500
I protect the Earth from solar radiation.
What is the magnetosphere?
500
A famous fault line located in California.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
500
The area of where a small body of water meets the ocean and can build up with sediment.
What is the mouth?
500
This volcano erupted in Washington in 1980.
What is Mt. St Helens?
500

Scientists who study layers of rocks and their relationships are working in this field.

What is stratigraphy?

500

These planets raise questions about the validity of the commonly accepted model for the origin of the solar system.

What are Mercury, Venus, Uranus, and Neptune?

600

Carbon-14 method, Potassium-argon method, and uranium-lead method.

What are some methods of radiometric dating?

600

Sea-floor spreading is believed to be slowly taking place because of movements in this.

What is hot mantle rock?

600

The sites where geologists believe seafloor spreading, creating new crust, is taking place. 

What is the rift at a mid-ocean floor?

600

"Year of the earth" in Latin.

What is anno mundi?

600

This hypothesis interprets Genesis 1 not as literal history, but as a description of two parallel groups of three days intended to show that God was the Creator.

What is the Framework hypothesis?

700

A basic logical error of dating rocks using fossils, and then using the same rocks to date fossils.

What is circular reasoning?

700

Used to hypothesize which continents were once joined together.

What is magnetic crystals and fossils?

700

The study of the earth's bedrock, earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains, and the forces that formed them.

What is Tectonics?

700

God's creation of everything from nothing in Latin.

Creation ex nihilo.

700

Year of the Lord in Latin.

What is anno Domini?

800

Time periods making up the diluvial geologic column. (5)

What are Creation Event, Lost-World Era, The Flood Event, New-World Era, and Recent Sediments?

800

German meteorologist and geophysicist who is best known for first describing the continental drift theory in a scientific paper.

Who is Alfred Wegener?

800

Units of time which geologists have used to divide the history of the earth. (5 from largest to smallest units)

Eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages.

800

Nerdy

 What is a Jeremy?

900

Occurs when one tectonic plate slides beneath another, often forming a trench.

What is subduction?

900

Theoretical global sea.

What is Panthalassa?

900

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