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93 Cards in this Set
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Know Genesis 1:1
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"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth"
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What is the definition of geology?
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"Geology has been historically been assigned to the science of the earth's rocks, minerals, their structures, and the processes that affect these structures
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The earth contains _____ billion trillion metric tons of just the right material to support human life
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3
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The mass and size of the earth are directly responsible for the strength of ______ of the earth's atmosphere
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gravity
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Gravity is responsible for the earth's _______
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atmosphere
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Our atmosphere contains an ______ amount of oxygen
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optimal
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Geologists can learn about the earth's interior by studying ______ waves
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earthquake
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The earth's crust is relatively ______ - density rock
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low
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The mantle makes up about _____ of the earth's volume
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84%
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Do we know more about the earth beneath our feet or the stars?
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stars
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True or False: The liquid portion of the core is at least partly responsible for the earth's magnetic field.
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true
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True or False: Geologist recognize no certain truths
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False
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True or False: Geologists can observe thousands of effects in nature that should be predictable by some model of the earth's origin
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False
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True or False: Scientific models require that only that which has been proved is used
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False
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True or False: Developing a scientific model requires scientists to make certain assumptions
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True
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True or False: No *human was present to view the origin of the earth
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True
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Name and Comment: be able to name and describe the three major events, that a Christian must keep in mind as he studies the earth's history
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Creation, the Fall and Curse, and the Flood
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The word geology literally means the _____ of ___ _______
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study, the earth
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The pressure of the _____ are extremely high
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core
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the _______ is believed to have a liquid out part
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core
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Water covers what percentage of the earth?
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71%
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The _____ occupies about 84% of the earth's volume
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mantle
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The _____ is an average of six times thicker under continents
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crust
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Developing a scientific model requires scientists to do what?
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make certain asssumptions
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This concept is important for a Christian to study
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a young, fully functioning earth
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God did this to the ground for man's sake
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cursed
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May have become more severe after the flood
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weather
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Loose material that sinks to the bottom of a body of water
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sediment
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Sedimentary rock layers found in the earth's crust
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strata
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The key to the present is the past is the motto of
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uniformitarianism
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Not being formed today is vast quantities
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coal
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"knowing this that in the last days shall come..."
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scoffers
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this part of the earth was named after the Croatian scientist who discovered it
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Moho
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True or False: The crust is solid yet low density rock
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True
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True or False: the crust ranges in thickness only in the oceans
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False
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True or False: The earth's history will not be in uniform
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True
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True or False: God has intervened supernaturally often in the earth's history
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True
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True or False: Evolutionists believe the earth is only thousands of years old
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False
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Know Exodus 20:11
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"For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it."
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Discuss: the creation, a fully functioning earth, the natural dominion, the Fall and Curse, or the Flood and its aftermath
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Minerals are a g______ g_____ of God
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gracious gift
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and are significant in God's Word so ___________
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They should be important to us too
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A mineral is a n______ o_______, i_________crystalline s_______ with a definite c______ c_______
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naturally occurring, inorganic, solid, chemical composition
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Only five minerals are mentioned in the first _____ chapters of Genesis
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six
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In addition ____ rocks and minerals are mentioned in the Bible after the flood
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36
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What are the tiny particles that are the building blocks of matter?
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atoms
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The number of these determines the element that atoms belong to
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protons
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Containing only one kind of atom
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native
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Most minerals are....
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compounds
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Not chemically combined
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mixture
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More reliable than apparent color of mineral
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mineral's streak
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The quality and intensity of light reflected from a mineral's surface
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luster
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The enlargement by adding particles to crystal's structure
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accretion
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This crystal can weigh several tons
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feldspar
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Characteristic to separate into flat sheets
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cleavage
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Minerals that do not separate into flat sheets but do have a pattern
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fracture
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Know about Mohs scale
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Minerals exclude ____ because it's organic
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coal
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Rocks tell a story based on a ____ bias view
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bias
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The message of rocks is primarily about _______ ________
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God's judgement
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Know four ways rocks are useful for us in everyday life
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medicines, roads, coal for fires, construction, etc.
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What is the study of rocks?
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petrology
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A possible secondary message in the rocks
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restoration
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The first thing a a geologist who studies rocks will determine
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classification
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Rock that may be produced by moving water and then compacted
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sedimentary
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The rock cycle is what type of model?
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uniformity
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A fragmentary rock that appears to contain other fragments from other eroded rocks is...
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clastic
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A material in which something is enclosed or embellished
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matrix
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Having no interconnecting pores in a rock
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impermeable
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Rock formed by the cooling of molten rock
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igneous
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The majority of processes on earth were designed in this fashion
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cyclic
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what is a fossil
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a fossil is any trace od a living organism perserved by naturak means
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Does the occurence of evolution refute creation?
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No
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To be able to trap and fossilize dinosaurs the catastrophe must've been....
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tremendous
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be able to quote and explain both of the oriental proverbs chinese and japanese proverbs having to do with moutains
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"Though not stumbling over the mountains, stumbling over the anthills"
"If you never climb the high moutains you'll never see the plane" |
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be able to list and explain values of moutains
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ex: boundaries, burial places, hiding places, sports, and scenic beauty, etc.
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what is a mountain?
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a mountain can be defied as a "natural elevation of the earth's crust"
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it rises more or less abruptly to a/an ______
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peak
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Geologists divide moutains into groups as to how ______________
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they think they were formed
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Moutains that form by accumulation on the earth's surface
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depositional
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Build up through materials coming through a central vent
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volcanoes
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Boston's Bunker Hill is called...
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a drumlin
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Moutain that usually forms a plateau
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erosional
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Mountains as, Appalachins, the Rockies, the Alps, and the Himalayas are classified as...
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fold mountains
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Uniformitarian theory to explain the orgin of the moutains
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orogeny
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True or False: both evolutionists and creationists suspect that mountains were raised by tectonic plates
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True
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True or False: there is no evidence that and moutains formed rapidly
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False
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True or False: most mountains today that exist today are probably the result of the Genesis Flood
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True
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True or False: Franci Bacon and Benjamin Franklin, both suggested ideas that became known as the conteintal drift theory
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True
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True or False: In the 1920s Alfred Wegner suggested that all modern continents had started as one big continent
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True
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True or False: Geologists have concluded that the ocean crusts are spreading away from the mid-ocean ridges which have become known as sea-floor spreading
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True
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be able to describe uniformitarian plate tectonics
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be able to discuss Creationary Plate Tectonics
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