Chapters 1-4
Study of the earth
What is geology?
Tries to reconcile the Bible and evolution
What is theistic evolution?
Study of the earth's oceans
What is oceanography?
Another name for cumulonimbus clouds
What are thunderheads?
The largest planet
What is Jupiter?
A theory that has never been proven false
What is a scientific law?
Supposed sudden appearance of life on the fossil record
What is the Cambrian explosion?
Sky or weather layer of the atmosphere
What is troposphere?
Narrow funnel of powerful, rapidly whirling wind that stretches from cloud to ground
What are tornadoes?
Sun-centered view of the universe
What is heliocentric?
What is weathering?
Hypothetical time scale that charts the sequence of rock layers in the earth's crust
What is the geologic column?
Movements of ocean water caused by the moon
What are tides?
Abrupt discharge of electricity through the air that produces a quick flash of bright light
What is lightning?
Study of God's creation beyond our atmosphere
What is astronomy?
Substances found naturally in the earth and have a crystalline structure
What are minerals?
False belief that all geologic processes have always proceeded at the same rate
What is uniformitarianism?
Winds that reverse their direction from season to season
What are monsoons?
Ratio of the actual humidity to the humidity of saturated air under the same conditions
What is relative humidity?
Point on the ecliptic midway between two equinoxes
What is a solstice?
Fan-shaped deposit of sediment at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
Deep-sea fish living fossil thought to be the ancestor of amphibians
What is coelacanth?
Sandy, gently sloping underwater plain near a continent
What is a continental plain?
Measure relative humidity
What is a hygrometer?
First person to travel in space
Who is Yuri Gagarin?