The Earth is Special
This word literally means the study of the earth.
What is geology?
These are large divisions that make up the earth's crust.
What are tectonic plates?
He introduced uniformitarianism to geology.
This is the thinnest layer of the earth.
What is the crust?
Any raw material we use from our environment.
What is a natural resource?
The shape of the earth's orbit.
What is an ellipse?
Seasons on Earth are most directly caused by this.
What is the earth's tilt?
Young-earth creationists believe that this is the approximate age of the earth.
What is 6000-7000 years old?
The earth's crust is thinner here than it is under the continents.
What are the oceans?
This is one way to conserve a nonrenewable resource while still using it.
What is recycling?
This protects the earth from harmful radiation particles that are streaming through space.
What is the earth's magnetic field?
This planet's gravity is most responsible for keeping asteroids away from Earth.
What is Jupiter?
Secular geologists currently believe that this is the earth's approximate age.
What is 4.5 billion years?
This is located at the bottom of the crust.
What is the moho?
Living resources such as trees or fish.
What are biological resources?
Of all the planets and moons in the solar system that have dense atmospheres, only the earth's atmosphere is this.
What is transparent?
This is the least dangerous location in a large galaxy such as ours.
What is the space between the arms of the galaxy?
The old-earth view of the earth's history, which includes assigning ages to rocks that extend far back into time, is called this?
What is the deep-time viewpoint?
The earth's core is primarily composed of this.
What is iron?
A resource that has been located and identified, but is not currently being used.
What is a potential resource?
The earth's location in this provides safety for life and allows us a very clear view of the heavens, making it ideal for God's image bearers.
What is the Milky Way galaxy?
Those who have realized that changes during Earth's history haven't been uniformly slow and due to uniform processes.
What are neocatastrophists or new catastrophists?
Geologists use these to collect data to model the earth's interior.
What are earthquake waves?
This is the densest part of the earth.
What is the core?
These two things make a resource precious or valuable.
What are supply and demand (how accessible the resource is and how much people want or need it)?