Evidence of Change
The idea that rock layers are older on the bottom of the geologic column and younger on the top.
What is the principle of superposition?
Scientists believe the earth is approximately this old.
What is 4.5 billion years?
A Biblical worldview believes the earth was created by this.
Who is God?
This person is best known for the Continental Drift theory.
Who is Alfred Wegener?
A cloud of gas and dust in space is called this.
What is a nebula?
Patterns in our solar system show that rocky planets are located here.
What is closer to the sun?
One way that secular scientists believe the earth's oceans formed.
What is ice from comets colliding with earth and melting OR water trapped in magma and being released?
All of the changes of the earth's surface associated with plate tectonics and glaciers are the result of this.
An underwater mountain chain created by magma oozing up through the ocean floor forming new rock.
What is the mid-ocean ridge?
A single layer of rock is called this.
What is a stratum?
We see U-shaped valleys, ridges, and other "scraped" features of the land across the world due to these.
What are glaciers?
The number of ice ages believed to have occurred throughout the history of the earth.
What is five?
The way creationists explain the cause of the ice age.
What is volcanoes heating the oceans and ash blocking the sunlight?
The process by which one plate slides under another plate as they collide.
What is subduction?
The two types of dating processes used with the geologic column.
What are asolute (fixed) and relative ages?
Continents fitting together like puzzle pieces, fossils, and similar mountain ranges provide evidence for this.
What is the Continental Drift theory?
Secular scientists might explain the cause of Venus's rotation as this.
What is being hit by another object in space?
The number of ice ages believed to have occurred throughout the earth's history.
What is one?
The formation of new ocean crust, slowly pushing older ocean crust aside is called this.
What is sea-floor spreading?
The last supercontinent to form.
What is Pangea?
The study of earth-shaping processes and the structures they form is called this.
What is tectonics?
The explanation for a solar system's origin.
What is the nebular hypothesis?
The version of plate tectonics that fits with the Bible's flood account.
What is catastrophic plate tectonics?
The term geologists use to refer to the giant pieces of the earth's crust.
What are tectonic plates?
Process created by The Flood where oceanic plates slid rapidly under continental plates at speeds of many miles per hour.