Science CH 5

What item gives of reliable information about how the earth originated?

Creation and Evolution are beliefs that are accepted by __________?

What principle states that the national laws in operation today have existed throughout Earth's history?

What does the geological record support?

What condition was made ideal by the Flood's rapid deposition of sediments?

Term for the idea that one or more catastrophes are primarily responsible for Earth's geological features?

What book passed on the ideas of uniformitarian?

What does the view of uniformitarianism often state?

Who popularized uniformitarianism?

The term for the idea that George Cuvier suggested and believed?

The supposed starting point of cosmic evolution?

Term for idea that the fittest and strongest of each species are more likely to survive than the weaker?

Can science make authoritative statements about the origin of the earth?

Term for belief that the universe and life originated by natural processes over billions of years?

About how many years ago did the Flood probably occur?

Term for preserved remains of plants, animals, or humans in sedimentary rock?

Term for the false belief that all geological processes have always proceeded at the same rate? "The present if the key to the past"

Term for the idea that one or more catastrophes are primarily responsible for Earth's geological features?

Who is considered the Father of Modern Geology?

Term for branch of geology that studies fossils?

Term for the guide used to identify rock layers in the field and characterize them to a specific period?

Who wrote On the Origin of Species?

Term for the hypothetical time scale that summarizes evolutionists' idea of Earth's history?

Name the order of the four time periods into which evolutionists divide the geologic column?

The units of time into which eras are divided?

Name three steps to the geologic column process?

The belief that God called the universe and all that is in it into existence out of nothing?

Term for the remains or impressions of a plant, animal, or human preserved in sedimentary rock?

Term for an organism that exhibits no change between its appearance in the fossil record and the present day?

What is a coelacanth?

What does the fossil record represent?

Term for a gap in strata that is missing one or more layers?

Term for animals and plants that disappear abruptly from the fossile record, yet are still alive today?

e foundation of Darwin's hypothesis was?

Evolutionary hypothesis that states: new kinds of organisms arise quickly because of rapid genetic changes?

This ape is an early link in the supposed genealogy of man; reconstructed from a few teeth and bone fragments.

Term for chimpanzee like "missing link" called "handy man"?

Most famous australopithecine?

Term for 100% human fossil lost during World War II?

Supposed "early human" who had rickets?

Fully human "missing link" found in southwest France?

Term for "southern ape"?

Most famous Australopithecus africanus?

Term for man's classification?

Term for "upright man", Java man.

Type of fossils that extend through several strata.

Sudden appearance of life in the fossil record?

Another name for transitional forms, "missing links"?

"missing link" thought to be a transitional form between amphibians and reptiles?

"missing link" thought to be a transitional form between reptiles and birds?

"missing link" thought to be a transitional form between fish and tetrapods?

One idea that attempts to reconcile the Bible and evolution?

The radiometric dating method used on organic materials?

Does the geological record support and confirm the Genesis Flood?

Where can geologic column be found in its entirety in the earth's crust?

What was the badly crushed "Homo habilis" skull that scientists found in Kenya?

The size of the portion of the skull that contains the brain?