A test is used to determine whether a document is consistent within itself
What is an internal test?
This test is used to evaluate whether or not the document we have today is the same document as the original
What is the bibliographic test?
This type of rock is formed from solidified magma
What is igneous rock?
This type of fossil requires mineral-rich water in order to form
What are petrified remains?
A type of test that is used to determine if a document is consistent with other documents of that time
What is an external test?
This test is used to evaluate whether or not the document contradicts itself
What is the internal test?
This is the name of magma after it erupts out of the earth
What is lava?
This type of fossil preserves only the shape and outer details of creatures
What are carbonized remains?
The decayed remains of once-living creatures is called...
What is humus?
This test is used to evaluate whether or not the document contradicts other known historical facts
What is the external test?
A limestone rock gets hit with acid rain and bubbles, this is an example of this type of weathering
What is chemical change?
A geologist that believes that most fossils were laid down over a short time period in earth's past believes in which view?
What is the catastrophist view?
The calculated age of an artifact from a specific dating method is said to be the...
What is the absolute age?
What is book 1?
This type of rock is where paleontologist usually find fossils
What is sedimentary rock?
The key assumption that uniformitarians have is
What is, the earth took a long time to form?
The conversion of organic material into rock is called...
What is petrification?
An archaeologist finds a coin with the date stamped on it, this is an example of this kind of age
What is the known age?
This structure forms from the ceiling of caves and often has the appearance of icicles
What are stalactites?
Geologists believe in this principle that states that the oldest things are at the bottom and the younger things are at the top?
What is the principle of superposition?