The crust
The inner and outer core is composed of these two elements
What are nickel and iron?
This rock is formed when MAGMA becomes a solid
What is an intrusive igneous rock.
This is the portion of the of the earth that contains the crust and top portion of the asthenosphere.
What is the lithosphere?
These fossils form when sediment lithifies around an organism, which then decays and then sediment fills in the cavity and lithifies.
What are fossil molds (1st) and casts (2nd)
When an atom has an unstable amount of neutrons, this happens.
What is radioactive decay?
These two are different processes for breaking down rock into smaller particles
What are chemical and physical weathering?
These two mechanical properties represent different ways a mineral can break
What is fracture and cleavage?
This scale represents how much energy is released by an earthquake
What is the Richter scale?
These fossils are formed something an organism leaves behind is fossilized
What is a trace fossil?
This group believes that God interacts with His creation and used evolution to diversify life
Who are theistic evolutionists?
What is the larger size?
What are silicon and oxygen?
The movement and transfer of heat through liquid magma creates this and causes tectonic plates to move.
What are convection currents?
This is the process of minerals slowly replacing an organism's remains
What is petrification?
Uniformitarians believe that this process created life as we see it today
What is evolution?
This layer of soil horizons is not present in every area, but is useful for draining excess water.
What is the E-horizon?
This is the process within the rock cycle where sediment becomes sedimentary rock
What is lithification?
This occurs when the more dense oceanic crust slides below the less dense continental crust.
What is subduction?
These fossils are so small that you cannot see them with the naked eye.
What are microfossils?
These fossils can be found on top of mountains, supporting the YEC view of creation
What are marine creature fossils?
This is an easily crumbled mixture of sand, silt, and clay.
What is loam?
This property causes bubbles to form when a mineral or rock is exposed to an acid
What is effervescence?
This property of the earth protects the earth from particles from the sun.
What is the earth's magnetic field?
Certain fossils are found in predictable positions relative to the strata that contain other fossils, which is described in what principle?
What is the principle of faunal succession?
These two types of radiometric dating can help estimate the age of both rocks and fossils
What are Potassium-Argon and Carbon 14 dating?