Facts
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100

Give an example of evidence that fossil mammoths were buried rapidly.

Intact remains of grass or mother's milk in stomach, evidence of clay suffocation, evidence of rapid loess formation

100

When your foot sinks in wet sand, the phenomena is called _____________.

Liquefaction

100
A GPS with a _____________ map layer can be used to measure the recession rate of a glacier.

Topographic

100

What is the most recent period of the Mesozoic Era?

Cretaceous

100
What percent of today's land surfaces are frozen?

20%

200

Tell me the difference between a volcanic crater and caldera.

A crater results from an exploded mountain top, while a caldera results from a collapsed mountain top

200

More felsic magmas are more viscous than ______ magmas.

Mafic

200

Google Earth can accept layers that are ___ files.

KML

200

What is the oldest geological era learned in week 9?

Precambrian

200

What kind of temperature drop would be expected for an ice age to occur?

6 degrees celsius

300

Granite, when heated to volcanic temperatures, gives off...

water vapor

300

A conclusion of special relativity is that ______ and ____ are connected.

Space, time

300

In Lab 2.3, liquefaction was able to sort objects by...

density

300

Should Christians have a healthy skepticism of all cosmological theories?

Yes

300
Name the phase of the Genesis flood when canyon formation was most likely to occur

Water in channels

400

Even though the evidence is against the idea, most still believe earthquakes occur where?

Along plate boundaries

400

___ ____ Cosmology imagines that space expands like a balloon

Big Bang

400

Which experiment in 2.4 formed a feature that looked like Marble Canyon?

Above-ground channelized flow with a steep slope

400

The universe is almost certainly one, many, or both.


Both one and many

400

Which verses describe the worldwide destruction of land animals and humans?

Genesis 7:20-21

500

Because of the way they form, scientists are able to give the least advanced warning about...

Earthquakes

500

The Cenozoic Era is divided into the ______, followed by the Tertiary

Quarternary

500

Can the density of magma change once it becomes lava (tephra)?

Yes

500

Siberia and much of ___________ were not covered with ice during the Ice Age.

Alaska

500

Describe how a thermal heat engine works.

Water over the magma chambers becomes less dense as it is heated, and rises.