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- 3. According to the ___ geologic time scale, the lowest stratum of the geologic column would represent the Creation event
- 5. Secular geologists believe this was caused by a collision (still exists today)
- 6. According to ____ ____ geologists, the order of fossils in the fossil record is based on the ability of organisms to flee rising waters during the Flood
- 9. ____ plate tectonics produced rapid movements of tectonic plates during a short amount of time
- 12. Oceanic plates are sliding under continental plates
- 13. The study for the earth-shaping processes and the structures they form is called ______
- 15. This we know for certain; ho human was present to view the earth's _____
- 16. a layer of rock (geologic term)
- 20. ______ subduction is a feature of John Baumgardner's catastrophic plate tectonics theory
- 21. An old-earth geologist would use a ___ local catastrophe to help explain a fossil graveyard
- 23. According to the nebular hypothesis, all planets began as this
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- 1. According to old-earth geologists, a ___ cooling of both continents and oceans was necessary for a glacial period to begin
- 2. Geologists determine the relative date of a rock layer by applying the principle of _____
- 4. magnetic _____ have been used to hypothesize which continents were at one time joined
- 5. Secular scientists believe this feature (that still exists today) formed first
- 7. According to a young-earth view, you would expect to find the greatest number and variety of fossils during this period
- 8. The planets ____ and Uranus raise major questions about the validity of the commonly accepted model for the origin of the universe because of the way they rotate
- 10. Sea-floor spreading occurs at mid-ocean ___
- 11. This hypothesis was developed by secular scientists to describe how our solar system came into existence
- 14. Secular geologists believe this was made of many continental plates (one big continent)
- 17. These plates can be both continental and oceanic
- 18. ___ and his family spent 371 days on the Ark
- 19. Sea floor spreading is thought to be driven by this layer of the earth
- 22. What was created first in the young-earth story