Ice, Ice.....Baby?
Deep cracks or fissures that develop on the surface of the glacier.
What are crevasses?
Main agent of chemical weathering.
What is water?
Idea that attempts to reconcile the Bible and evolution by claiming that God used evolution as the method of creation.
What is theistic evolution?
Process of modifying a smooth slope into a series of level, stair-like steps to prevent erosion.
What is terracing?
What is a star dune?
Regions of the Earth's surface where limestone is exposed and abundant.
What are karst regions?
Mass of foaming water that forms when waves wash up onto the beach.
What is surf?
Device that uses underwater sound waves to determine the size, distance, and direction of objects.
What is sonar?
Large holes that form when huge chunks of melting glacial ice lodge in washed-out sediments.
What are kettles?
Scientific term for the volume of the portion of the skull that includes the brain.
What is cranial capacity?
Term that refers to a fossil organism found in strata that are supposedly too old or too young to contain that organism.
What is an anomaly?
Natural ridges that form when water flow causes sediments to drop along the edge of a river's channel.
What are levees?
Submersible consisting of a crew compartment suspended from a float.
What is bathyscape?
Middle layer of the earth, located between the crust and the core.
What is the mantle?
What is temperature and salinity.
Type of current that is made of seawater mixed with mud or silt and can erode the ocean floor to produce submarine canyons.
What is a turbidity current?
The way light is reflected from the surface of a mineral.
What is luster?
Ability to duplicate an experiment several times while keeping all factors as similar as possible between experiments and coming to the same conclusion.
What is repeatability?
A fossil that extends through multiple strata.
What is polystrate fossil?
Method of erosion prevention that involves planting alternating strips of different types of crops.
Oceanographers measure hydrostatic pressure in this metric unit.
What is kilopascals?
Rocks that form when other types of rocks are "cooked" by heat and pressure.
What are metamorphic rocks?
Substance that makes up most of the salt in the oceans.
What is sodium chloride?
Oceanographic tool that is a highly maneuverable robot linked to a support ship by cables.
What is ROV?
Hills that form when advancing glaciers overrun old piles of till.
What are drumlins?
Method of measuring an earthquake's strength is based on the earthquake's effects on people and structures.
Thought to be a missing link in man's evolution but was later found to be the remains of a modern human.
What is Cro-Magnon man?
Material that is carried away by a stream.
What is load?
End of the sandy, underwater plain that borders the land, where there is sharp drop-off.
What is continental slope?
Type of weathering that involves the breaking or peeling away of rock into layers.
What is exfoliation?
Large waves created by underwater disturbances.
What are tsunamis?
Oceanographic tool that charts currents far beneath the surface and sends back accurate measurements of those currents and water properties.
What is a profiling float?
The type of rock that consists of smooth pebbles embedded in hardened sand or clay.
What is conglomerate rock?
Supposedly a missing link between amphibians and reptiles.
What is Seymouria?
Circular paths that ocean currents move in.
What are gyres?
Idea where understanding modern geological processes is the key to understanding earth's geological history.
The top layer of soil, which contains most of the organic substances and nutrients.
What is topsoil?
Circular coral-reef island that grows around an underwater volcano.
What is an atoll?
Huge, muddy valley that cuts into the deep ocean floor.
What is a trench?
Metals that are used as a fuel for nuclear reactors.
What is uranium?
A technique that evolutionists use to assign supposedly exact ages to rocks and fossils.
What is radiometric dating?
Very slow downslope movement of soil and rock fragments.
What is soil creep?
Dangerous currents that form when large amounts of water from waves surge out to sea through a break in a sandbar.
What are rip currents?
Well-known amorphous igneous rock has a glass-like texture and splits to form sharp edges.
What is obsidian?
Main factor that affects the color of the oceans.
What is its natural color?
Underwater valley that gives mid-ocean ridges the appearance of having twin mountain ranges.
What is a rift?
Idea that the natural laws in operation today have existed throughout Earth's history.
What is the principle of uniformity?
Weaker earthquakes that often follow an earthquake at frequent intervals for days or months.
What are aftershocks?
In an experiment, a variable observed to determine the results.
What is dependent variable?
Largest group of minerals, that compose over 90% of the earth's crust.
What are silicates?
Upward-flowing current that occurs when a land breeze pushes surface water away from the coast.
What is an upwelling?
Device used by oceanographers to measure the temperature at different levels and report them back to a surface ship?
What is expendable bathythermograph?
Idea that states that the fittest and strongest organisms are most likely to survive and reproduce.
What is natural selection?
What is a sapphire?
A volcano that is made of alternating layers of lava and ash.
What is a composite volcano?
Wave that grows taller and steeper as it travels to shore and topples forward with a white crest.
What is a breaker?
Device with an open tube that is dropped to the sea floor to allow its weight to puncture sediment and bring up samples.
What is gravity corer?
Based on Biblical teachings, this event was probably directly responsible for laying down most of Earth's sedimentary rock layers.
What is the flood?
Fossils used by evolutionists to date rock layers.
What are index fossils?
Type of fault that occurs when rocks on one side of a fault are shoved on top of the rocks on the other side of the fault.
What is a thrust fault?
Tide that occurs when there is one high tide and one low tide each day.
What is diurnal tide?
Deepest known point in the sea.
What is Challenger Deep?