Oceans
What is the main factor that affects the color of the oceans?
What is a natural color
What oceanographic tool charts currents far beneath the surface and sends back accurate measurements of those currents and water properties?
What is a profiling float
What substance makes up most of the salt in the oceans?
What is sodium chloride
The idea that the natural laws in operation today have existed throughout Earth’s history
What is the principle of uniformity
Rocks formed when other types of rocks are “cooked” by heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks
What oceanographic tool is a highly maneuverable robot linked to a support ship by cables?
What is a ROV
What device has an open tube that is dropped to the sea floor to allow its weight to puncture sediment and bring up sediment samples?
What is a gravity corer
What are large waves created by underwater disturbances called?
What is a tsunamis
What idea states that the fittest and strongest organisms are most likely to survive and reproduce?
What is natural selection
What gemstone consists of corundum with traces of iron or titanium that give it a distinctive blue color?
What is a sapphire
What is a huge, muddy valley that cuts into the deep ocean floor?
What is a trench
What device to oceanographers use to measure the temperature at different levels and report them back to a surface ship?
What is a expandable bathythermograph
What is a wave that grows taller and steeper as it ravels to shore and topples froward with a white crest called?
What is a breaker
The idea that understanding modern geological processes is the key to understanding earth’s geological history
What is uniformitarianism
What well-known amorphous igneous rock has a glass-like texture and splits to form sharp edges?
What is obsidian
What is a circular coral-reef island that grows around an underwater volcano?
What is an atoll
The device that uses underwater sound waves to determine the size, distance, and direction of objects
What is a sonar
What type of underwater valley gives mid-ocean ridges the appearance of having twin mountain ranges?
What is a rift
What idea attempts to reconcile the Bible and evolution by claiming that God used evolution as the method of creation?
What is theistic evolution
What is the largest group of minerals, which composes over 90% of the earth’s crust?
What are silicates
What type of current is made of seawater mixed with mud or silt and can erode the ocean floor to produce submarine canyons?
What is a turbidity current
A submersible consisting of a crew compartment suspended from a float
What is a bathyscaphe
What is an up-flowing current that occurs when a land breeze pushes surface water away from the coast?
What is a upwelling
What technique do evolutionists use to assign supposedly exact ages to rocks and fossils?
What is radiometric-dating
What type of rock consists of smooth pebbles embedded in hardened sand or clay?
What is a conglomerate rock