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A rock layer is called
Stratum
Geologist who study the evolution of life is called?
Paleontologists
Geologist believe that the continents have crashed together to form?
Supercontinents
A mass of ice produced when snow builds up and compacts?
Glacier
Hot molten rock is called?
Magma
Geologist think that the continent foundation was probably the rock we call?
Granite
The version of plate tectonics that aligns with the bibles flood?
Model of rock strata that documents the history of the earth.
Geologic column
Secular scientists once thought that ________ was a transitional form between reptiles and birds
Archaeopteryx
When geologists find fossils embedded in rock they use it to find the age of the rock. This process is called?
Index fossils
(Theory) Small bodies of rock, dust, and ice that formed earth in a process called?
Planetesimals
The study of earth-shaping processes and the structures they form is called?
Tectonics
Exoplanets
Theory that the planets formed from a cloud of dust and gas called ______
Nebula
Geologists call the pieces of earths crust?
Tectonic Plates
Rocks being moved by a glacier is called?
Glacial erratic
When deep continental glaciers cover a large part of earths surface?
Glacial period (Ice Age)
With the oldest stratum at the bottom and youngest at the top this view is called?
Principle of superposition
Many geologists believe that the first major ice age started around_____ years ago?
2.1 billion
The last supercontinent to form was called?
Pangaea
Continents hav e slowly drifted to their current positions over time?
Continental Drift theory
He suggested that all modern continents had started as a single large continent called Pangaea?
Alfred Wegener
Theory that everything formed from the nebula spins or orbits in the same direction as the orginal nebula is called?
Nebular hypothesis
Oceanic plates sliding under continental plates?
Subduction
The formation of new ocean crust at the mid-ocean ridge is called?
Sea-floor spreading