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Believe It
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Under The
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The sun and planets make up
this system.
What is the Solar System?
A model for the origin of the
solar system.
What is the Nebular
Hypothesis ?
The big bang created this.
What is the Universe?
The belief in the literal
interpretation of account of the
creation of the universe and of
all living things related in the
Bible.
What is the Creationism?
This created the Universe.
What is the Big Bang?
What is Continental Shelf?
What is the continental slope?
What are Deep-Ocean
Trenches?
It essentially states that the
earth’s outer shell consists of
about 20 rigid plates.
What are Plates?
The study of the Ocean.
What is Oceanography?
He constructed a chronology of
the earth’s history and
determined that it was only a few
years old.
Who was James Ussher?
He put forth the principle of
uniformitarianism.
Who was James Hutton?
It was not until after work
published by Charles Lyell that
this was widely accepted.
What is Uniformitarianism?
There is an important law that is
used in relative dating which is
credited to Nicolaus Steno.
What is the Law of
Superposition?
A principle that states that
fossil organisms succeed one
another in a definite and
determinable order, credited
to William Smith.
What is the Principle of Fossil
Succession?
Dinosaurs became extincted
What is 65 million years?
Age Of The Earth.
What is 4.5 billion years?
Rock and structures are placed in
their proper sequence or oder.
What is relative dating?
The exact numerical age.
What is Absolute Dating?
Daily Double
The concept that Earth was
shaped by catastrophic events
over a short time.
What is Catastrophism?
Another name for absolute age.
What is Exact Numerical
Age?
Another word for Observation.
What is Measurement?
The normal Progression
for the development of
scientific knowledge.
What is observationhypothesis-theory-law?
The air we breathe is
composed mostly of what gas?
What is Nitrogen?
The name for all sciences that
collectively seek to understand
the Earth.
What is Earth Science?