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What type of fault occurs when rocks on one side of a fault are shoved on top of the rocks on the other side of the fault?

Abnormal

Strike-slip

Normal

Thrust

What is a submersible consisting of a crew compartment suspended from a float called?

Bathyscaphe

What idea states that understanding modern geological processes is the key to understanding earth’s geological history?

Uniformitarianism

Why can icebergs float in seawater?

They are less dense than seawater

What is a missing link between amphibians and reptiles?

Archaeopteryx

Tiktaalik

Seymouria

Knightia

What method of erosion prevention involves planting alternative strips of different types of crops?

Terracing

Breakwater

Levee

Strip cropping

What substance makes up most of the salt in the oceans?

Sodium chloride

What are hills that form when glaciers overrun old piles of till called?

Moraine

Kettle

Drumlin

Trench

What is the largest group of minerals?

Halides

Phosphates

Carbonates

Silicates

What type of dune looks like a pyramid with several out reaching arms?

Transverse dune

Crescentic dune

Star dune

Parabolic dune

What are large holes formed when huge chunks of ice lodge in washed-out sediments?

Moraine

Drumlin

Striae

Kettle

Which scale measures earthquakes by its effects on people and buildings?

EEW

Modified Mercalli

Moment magnitude

Richter magnitude

At the end of the sandy, underwater plain that borders land, a sharp drop off make the beginning of what?

Continental slope

What is the main factor that affects the color of the oceans?

Natural color

Surface reflection

Impurities

Water temperature

What biblical event was probably directly responsible for laying down most of earth’s sedimentary rock layers?

Flood

Fall of man

Creation

Tower of Babel

What is the process of creating a series of level, stair-like steps to prevent erosion?

Breakwater

Strip cropping

Terracing

Windbreak

What is the metric unit for hydrostatic pressure?

Kilopascal

What is a huge, muddy valley that cuts deep into the ocean floor?

Trench

Submarine canyon

Shelf break

Ocean basin

What is the device that uses underwater sound waves to determine the size, distance, and direction of objects?

Sonar

What type of current can erode the ocean floor to produce submarine canyons?

Salinity current

Upwelling

Countercurrent

Turbidity current

What are the two factors that determine sea water’s density?

Temperature / salinity

What amorphous igneous rock has a glass-like texture and splits to form sharp edges?

Breccia

Scoria

Slate

Obsidian

What device do oceanographers use to measure the temperature at different levels and report them back?

CTD sensor

Expendable bathythermograph

Niskin bottle

Rosette

What type of volcano is made up of alternating layers of lava and ash?

Shield volcano

Intrusive volcano

Cinder cone volcano

Composite volcano

Which of these were thought to be a missing link in man’s evolution but was later found to be the remains of a modern human?

Java man

Nebraska man

Peking man

Cro-Magnon man

What are regions called where abundant limestone is exposed?

Drip stone regions

Sinkhole regions

Stalagmite regions

Karst regions

What kind of fossils are used by evolutionists to date rock layers?

Stasis fossils

Polystrate fossils

Index fossils

Trace fossil

What is the top layer of soil containing most of the soil’s nutrients called?

Topsoil

What is the foaming water that forms when waves wash up onto the beach called?

Surf

What are the dangerous currents called that form when large amounts of water from waves surge out to sea through a break in a sandbar?

Rip current

What oceanographic tool charts currents far beneath the surface and sends back accurate measurements of them?

Profiling float

Oceanographic buoy

Niskin bottle

Drift bottle

What idea claims that God used evolution as the method of creation?

Creational evolution

Biological evolution

Cosmic evolution

Theistic evolution

Which gemstone has a distinctive blue color?

Turquoise

Aquamarine

Sapphire

Zircon

What technique do evolutionists use to assign exact ages to rocks and fossils?

Radiometric dating

Relative dating

Circular reasoning

Unconforming reasoning

What is a circular coral-reef island that grows around an underwater volcano?

Rift

Atoll

Sandbar

Guyot

What is the middle layer of the earth called?

Mantle

What type of underwater valley gives mid-ocean ridges the appearance of having twin mountain ranges?

Trench

Guyot

Submarine canyon

Rift

What type of tide occurs when there is one high tide and one low tide each day?

Diurnal

What are large waves created by underwater disturbances such as earthquakes?

Tsunamis

What are the deep cracks that develop on a glacier called?

Crevasses

Horns

Aretes

Cirques

What is any area of the sea that exceeds 6000 m in depth?

Hadal zone

Seamount

Abyssal plain

Submarine canyon

What term refers to the way a mineral reflects light?

Luster

What term refers to a fossil organism found in strata that are supposedly too old or too young to contain that organism?

Unconformity

Trace fossil

Anomaly

Index fossil

What is the deepest known point in the sea?

Challenger Deep (Mariana Trench)

What principle states that natural laws in operation today have existed throughout Earth’s history?

Uniformity

What are weaker earthquakes that often follow an earthquake at frequent intervals?

Aftershock

What are the natural ridges formed on the sides of a river from sediment called?

Floodplains

Deltas

Meanders

Levees

What kind of variable is used to determine the results of an experiment?

Dependent

What is a wave that grows taller as it travels to shore and topples forward with a white crest?

Upwelling

Breaker

Surf

Rip current

Which metal is used as a fuel for nuclear reactors?

Nickel

Platinum

Aluminum

Uranium

What is the very slow downslope movement of soil and rock fragments?

Soil creep

Gullying

Sheet erosion

Runoff

What device has an open tube that is dropped to the sea floor to allow its weight to puncture sediment?

Column corer

Pressure corer

Piston corer

Gravity corer

What kind of current occurs when a land breeze pushes surface water away from the coast?

Countercurrent

Upwelling

Undertow

Rip current

What is the main agent in chemical weathering?

Sulfuric acid

Water

Soda lime

Oxygen

What evolutionary idea states that only the strongest organisms are likely to survive?

Natural selection

What is the scientific term for the volume of the portion of the skull that includes the brain?

Cranial capacity

What is material carried by a stream called?

Load

What type of weathering involves peeling away rock into thin layers?

Exfoliation

What are the circular paths that ocean currents move in called?

Gyres

What group of rocks are formed when other rocks are cooked by heat and pressure?

Metamorphic

What is a fossil that extends through multiple layers of strata?

Index fossil

Stasis fossil

Polystrate fossil

Trace fossil

What type of rock consists of smooth pebbles embedded in hardened sand or clay?

Nonfoliated rocks

Sedimentary rocks

Conglomerate rocks

Foliated rocks

What oceanographic tool is a highly maneuverable robot linked to a support ship by cables?

DSV

AUV

FLIP

ROV

What is the ability to duplicate an experiment with the same factors and get the same results?

Repeatability

What is the very slow downslope movement of soil and rock fragments?

Soil creep