The World of Earth Science and Matter, Forces, and Energy
This change often involves a release of energy or a temperature change, but always results in a new substance being formed.
Chemical
A map projection with its point of contact in the center of North America would be a(n)...
Oblique projection
The Moho is found at...
The bottom of the crust
What did God create on the same day as humans?
Land creatures
The horizontal direction of a fault is its...
Strike
According to an important presupposition of science, for every observable result of a process, there must be an adequate...
Cause
A person who creates maps is called a..
Cartographer
The word geology literally means the study of the...
Earth
What was created first in the young-earth story?
Light
A mountain landform that results mainly from forces within the crust are classified as....
Tectonic Mountains
Is friction a field force?
No
The map that John Snow used to map where cholera outbreaks occurred is an example of...
Thematic maps
A resource manager who is concerned about using resources at a rate that allows them to be replenished is using...
Sustainable yield
According to the diluvial geologic time scale, the stratum is ordered...
By how organisms would escape a worldwide flood
The topography of a region is...
The differences of land elevations in that region
The nucleus of an atom is made up of...
Protons and neutrons
If I wanted to use a map that showed the borders of states, I should probably grab a ________ map.
Political
Where is the least dangerous location in a large galaxy like the Milky Way?
The space between the arms of the galaxy
According to a young-earth view, during which period would you expect to find the greatest number and variety of fossils?
The flood
Which of the following is NOT a primary cause of most depositional hills and mountains?
Rain
This contact force causes the particles in an object to move across each other in layers
Shear
Which of these maps often uses contour lines?
Topographic
Which part of the earth's layers partially helps to create earth's magnetic field?
Outer core
The flood describe in the book of Genesis...
Completely changed the world
Which of the following landforms was NOT formed by erosion?
Volcanoes