SPHERES IN ACTION
TECTONIC FORCES
CREATION & THE FLOOD
BUILDING & BREAKING
WATER WORLD
400
Clouds, wind, and weather all take place in this sphere.
What is the atmosphere?
400

These are the two most notable types of tectonic activity.

What are Earthquakes and Volcanoes

400
These two formative events in Earth's history occurred only once and will never occur again.
What are Creation and the Flood?
400
Weathering breaks rock down; this process then carries the pieces away.
What is erosion?
400

This is the largest freshwater lake in the world by area. Its also the largest of the Great Lakes

Lake Superior

800
A coral reef sits in the hydrosphere, but its living corals and fish belong to this sphere.
What is the biosphere?
800
Mountains and volcanoes form where an oceanic plate sinks beneath a continental plate in this process.
What is subduction?
800
Creation and the Flood contradict this view because Earth's features did not all form gradually over long periods of time.
What is uniformitarianism?
800
Canyons, valleys, and some islands are formed by this kind of process that wears the land away.
What is a destructive process?
800

What are the 4 principal ocean basins?

Pacific
Atlantic
Indian
Artic

1200
Tectonic plates are pieces of this sphere, made of the crust and the rigid upper mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
1200

This fault is found in the state of California..

San Andreas Fault

1200
The Flood is the greatest example of this kind of violent upheaval of Earth's crust.
What is a cataclysm?
1200

A U-shaped valley left behind by moving ice is called this.

What is fjord?

1200

Worlds largest lake by both area and volume is...

Caspian Sea

1600
Rain falling from a cloud into a river moves water from the atmosphere into this sphere.
What is the hydrosphere?
1600
When pressure bends and wrinkles rock layers instead of breaking them, this type of tectonic activity has occurred.
What is folding?
1600
Massive fossil beds with many kinds of life mixed together are cited as worldwide evidence of this event.
What is the Flood?
1600
A hill, mesa, and peninsula are each an example of this general term for a feature of the land.
What is a landform?
1600
The Missouri River flows into the Mississippi River, making the Missouri this.
What is a tributary?
2000
A farm field uses soil, rain, air, and growing crops, showing these four spheres working together.
What are the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere?
2000

The Indian and Asian plates collided during the flood creating this landform

The Himalayas

2000
Scientists holding this view reject the biblical account but admit Earth's surface cannot be explained by gradual, uniform processes alone.
What is neocatastrophism?
2000
Unlike a plain, this landform is flat on top but rises well above the land around it.
What is a plateau?
2000
Besides spreading the sun's heat and supplying water for rain clouds, oceans have historically protected nations in this way.
What is guarding them from invasion?
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