Cubangbang Science 8 Last Unit Test Stack #136658
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| Chapter 15: | (blank)
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| Rocks are not useful for anything other than building materials | FALSE
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| Sedimentary rocks form the majority of exposed rocks on the earth’s surface | TRUE
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| When people talk about “natural concrete,” they mean conglomerate | TRUE
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| The permeability of siltstone is nearly as good as that of sandstone because the two have nearly the same porosities | FALSE
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| The reason few human (and land vertebrate) fossils exist is probably that these organisms were able to avoid being buried during the initial stages of the Flood by fleeing the rising waters | TRUE
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| There is no scientific evidence in the fossil record to show that humans have evolved from apelike creatures | TRUE
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| The geologic column could be a record of the stages of the pre-Flood ,Flood ,and post-Flood rock formation at a given location | TRUE
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| According to evolutionists, fish appeared during the Mesozoic era | TRUE
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| The first use of natural gas as a fuel occurred in the 1700’s | FALSE
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| Magma that flows out onto the earth’s surface without losing dissolved gases can produce frothy, sponge-like rocks | TRUE
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| Mafic rocks contain relatively little silica | TRUE
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| Gneiss means “easily split” | FALSE
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| The most common foliated metamorphic rocks are slate, schist, and gneiss | TRUE
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| Chapter 16 | (blank)
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| Mountains on other planets and moons are called mountains because their discoverers think they are more mountain than hill | TRUE
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| Because of the volcano Mauna Kea, the island Hawaii has the greatest relief of any place on Earth | FALSE
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| Mount Ararat is a depositional mountain | TRUE
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| Rocks can bend slightly if a large, unopposed force is applied continuously over a long period of time | TRUE
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| Since rocks will fracture or crumble if a strong enough compressive force is applied, whether opposed or not opposed, massive overthrusts are probably impossible | TRUE
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| The land surrounding the San Andreas Fault in California is a good example of fault-block mountains | FALSE
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| Where uniformitarian geologists claim significant overthrusting of older rocks over younger has occurred, such as at Chief Mountain in Mountana and the Matterhorn in Switzerland, the old and young strata in contact do not show any evidence of having been | TRUE
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| According to creationary scientists, mountains were formed during or shortly after the Flood and are now just wearing away | FALSE
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| Creationists should not depend on a theory such as uniformitarian plate tectonics to explain the features on the earth today | TRUE
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| Chapter 17 | (blank)
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| The height of the zigs and zags on a seismogram tells us how much energy is in the earthquake that produced them | TRUE
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| A magnitude 5 earthquake on the Richter scale has 999 times as much energy as a magnitude 3 earthquake | TRUE
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| Iran was the location of the deadliest earthquake in history | FALSE
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| The most destructive waves produced by an earthquake are the L waves | TRUE
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| Faults can exist only where tectonic plates meet | FALSE
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| The use of lasers and satellites to map the movements of tectonic plates enables seismologists to reliably predict when an earthquake will occur | FALSE
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| Volcanoes form from vent pipes connected directly to the molten mantle rocks | FALSE
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| Historically, pyroclastic flows and lahars have caused more deaths than flowing lava from volcanic eruptions | TRUE
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| The MMI scale rates the destructiveness of a volcano | FALSE
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| Volcanoes are not found in the middle of oceanic or continental plates. They are found only along the edges of plates where they collide with other plates | FALSE
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| Heated groundwater transfers geothermal energy mainly by conduction | FALSE
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| Geysers occur because of the shape and constrictions in the path of heated groundwater to the surface | TRUE
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| More geothermal energy sources could be developed if energy companies would accept the risks and explore for suitable locations to build plants | TRUE
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| Chapter 18 | (blank)
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| Chemical weathering can result in both a change of composition and a change in shape | TRUE
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| In general, a lack of talus at the base of a rock cliff indicates that the rock is resistant to mechanical weathering | TRUE
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| God preserved the original, very good soils for our use today | FALSE
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| Deserts are vast areas of hot sand dunes where nothing living can survive | FALSE
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| Soils can form relatively quickly(in a matter of months or a few years) | TRUE
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| Rock glaciers occur only in the tropics where it is too warm for true glaciers to exist | FALSE
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| Just like the pressure gradient we discussed in Chapter 11, the stream gradient represents a change in something compared to horizontal distance over ground | TRUE
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| Chapter 19 | (blank)
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| Landmasses completely surround each ocean | FALSE
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| Although echo sounding can tell us a great deal about the bottom of the ocean, we still need to send people down to observe in order to study the bottom completely | TRUE
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| Every continent is bounded by a continental shelf with a continental slope containing submarine canyons | FALSE
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| The central lagoons of atolls are often the flooded centers of meteorite craters | FALSE
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| The abyssal plains are the deepest parts of any ocean | FALSE
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| We can assume that due to the dissolving of large quantities of minerals during the worldwide Flood, the only aquatic organisms to survive the yearlong catastrophe at that time would be called saltwater organisms today | TRUE
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| Manganese nodules are the major source of manganese and other rare minerals for the United States today | FALSE
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| Marine snow occurs only in late winter in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres | FALSE
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| Unusual tides include “tidal waves” | FALSE
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| If wave steepness exceeds 1/7, the wave will collapse as a breaking wave | TRUE
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| Deep-sea currents are usually in the opposite direction from surface currents | FALSE
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| Good deep-sea fishing is often found where the continental shelf ends and the continental slope begins because of the upwelling of nutrients | TRUE
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| Trieste, Alvin, and Challenger are the three most famous bathyscaphs | FALSE
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| Chapter 20 | (blank)
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| It is expected that with global warming the increase of precipitation will cause most of the world’s glaciers to advance | FALSE
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| When two or more mountain glaciers flow together, the result is a valley glacier | FALSE
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| The world’s largest icecap is located in Antartica | FALSE
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| If a military submarine couod go no deeper than 400 m, it would be relatively safe traveling submerged through a field of large icebergs | FALSE
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| Boulders transported by glaciers are called erratics because they are not like the underlying bedrock in the location where the glacier dropped them | TRUE
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| Streamlined, unstratified glacial deposits that often occur clusters are called drumlins | TRUE
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| Scientists have shown that varves deposited annually in lakes are useful for determining the age of sediments | FALSE
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| Noah and his sons probably had to learn to farm during short, cool summers | TRUE
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| Chapter 21 | (blank)
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| The majority of the world’s liquid fresh water is in lakes, streams, and rivers | FALSE
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| Fresh water that does not flow to the sea or is not immediately evaporated back into the atmosphere is lost to the hydrologic cycle | FALSE
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| The water table must intersect that land surface in order for a spring to exist | TRUE
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| Even so-called impermeable rock can be highly porous | TRUE
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| A recharge zone is an area that replenishes groundwater | TRUE
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| One of the reasons water is such a good solvent is that pure water4 is naturally acidic | FAKSE
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| According to a creationary model of cave formation, only the deepest caves in limestone strata could have survived the Flood | FALSE
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| Speleothem refers to any type of cave formation consisting of calcite or another mineral deposited by dripping or flowing waterTRUE | (blank)
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| Geologists have proven using carbon-14 dating methods that stalactites required thousands of years to form | FALSE
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| The name karst topography comes from a plateau in Slovenia that has many cave, sinkholes, natural bridges, and streamless valleys | TRUE
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