Chapter 8 Test

Question 0

According to Mrs. Cannady, how many hours are in each day?

Answer 0

24

Question 1

According to Mrs.Cannady, the earth was created in how many days?

Answer 1

7

Question 2

According to Mrs. Cannady, how old is the earth?

Answer 2

6,000 years

Question 3

Who is a person that believes in evolution and in the Bible?

Answer 3

Theistic evolutionist

Question 4

What is the theory that says that the seven days in Genesis are very long ages?

Answer 4

Day age theory

Question 5

What is the theory that there was a very long period of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2?

Answer 5

Gap theory.

Question 6

What is the theory that the earth and organisms were created and then over time new organisms were created?

Answer 6

Progressive creationism.

Question 7

What word means before the flood?

Answer 7

Antediluvian.

Question 8

What is the theory that says there was a layer of water vapor surrounding the earths atmosphere?

Answer 8

Canopy theory.

Question 9

List what things may have been like during the canopy period.

Answer 9

1. Tropical rainforest like

2. Filter harmful UV rays

Question 10

What is a remnant or trace of an organism of a past age?

Answer 10

Fossil.

Question 11

List 6 types of fossilization.

Answer 11

1. Preservation of parts.
2. Preservation of tracks
3. Preservation of carbon
4. Preservation of forms
5. Perifaction
6. Frozen fossils

Question 12

Most fossils are found in what kind of rocks?

Answer 12

Sedimentary rocks.

Question 13

What is a fossil that is used to tell the age of a layer?

Answer 13

Index fossil.

Question 14

What is used by many evolutionists to explain what we explain by the flood?

Answer 14

Ice age.

Question 15

What is the length of time necessary for a radioactive substance to decay to half its original amount?

Answer 15

Half life

Question 16

Name 4 types of radiometric dating.

Answer 16

1. Uranium-lead
2. Potassium-argon
3. Rubidium- strontium
4. Carbon 14 dating

Question 17

What is the main issue with radiometric dating? one word!

Answer 17

Assumption.

Question 18

List some problems with radiometric dating.

Answer 18

1. We have to assume that when the rocks was formed, it contained all uranium and NO lead.
2. The rate of decay has been constant from the time the rock was formed.
3. None of the uranium or lead escaped from or was added to the rock since it was formed.

Question 19

What is a diagram that demonstrates the supposed stages of evolution?

Answer 19

Phylogenetic tree.

Question 20

What is a missing link/ common ancestor?

Answer 20

A in-between stage.

Question 21

What is natural selection?

Answer 21

Darwin’s belief that an organism that has the best characteristics suited to its environment will live the longest and therefore reproduce the most.

Question 22

What is adaptation?

Answer 22

Changes of an organism to become familiar with the surroundings

Question 23

What is a vestigial structure?

Answer 23

One that is believed to no longer have a function in a organism

Question 24

What is a structure that is similar to that on other organisms because they evolved from a common ancestor?

Answer 24

Homologous

Question 25

What is punctuated equilibrium?

Answer 25

The belief that there were periods of rapid evolution followed by periods with almost no evolution.

Question 26

What is a hypothetical organism that supposedly gave rise to two or more types of organisms?

Answer 26

Common ancestor.

Question 27

What is a species?

Answer 27

Consist of individuals that can interbred with each other.

Question 28

The evolutionary processes through which new species arise from existing species?

Answer 28

Specification.

Question 29

How old do evolutionists think the earth is?

Answer 29

4.5 billions years.

Question 30

How long ago do evolutionist think first life evolved?

Answer 30

2.5 billions years.

Question 31

What is a fossil that links an ancient group of organisms to more recent group?

Answer 31

Traditional fossils.

Question 32

What is a acquired trait?

Answer 32

Something you are not born with

Question 33

What is homology that developed gradually before common ancestor of a set species?

Answer 33

Ancestral homology

Question 34

What is mutation?

Answer 34

A change in genetic material that results from an error in replication in DNA.

Question 35

What measures the decay of a radioactive substance?

Answer 35

Radiometric dating method