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Science
9th Grade Science
| answer | question |
|---|---|
| evolution | the false belef that the universe and all that is in it originated by natural process over billions of years |
| index fossil | a fossil considered to be haracteristic of a specfic period |
| eohopper | dog-sized mammal onced thought to be the ancestor of the horse |
| special creation | the belief that God called the unicerse and all that is in it into existence out of nothing or "ex nihilo" |
| limestone | the type of rock most commonly associated with caverns |
| uniformatarionism | the false belief that all geoplogical processes have always proceeded at the same rate |
| mass wasting | genera term for movements of rock and soil caused by gravity |
| ice wedging | a type of physical weathring that occurs when rainwater or melted ice soaks into tiny cracks in a rock and freezes, splitting the rock |
| puctuated equilleibrium hypothesis | the evolutionary hypothesis that states new kinds of organisms arise as a result of drastic environmental changes, whick cause the species to radically changed in just a ew generations |
| exfoiation | a type of echanical weathering involving the breaking or peeling away of rock layers, often associated with granite |
| neandrathal man | presently is now recognized as 100% human |
| stalogmight | a spirelike mass of dripstone on the floor of a cave |
| natural selection | the idea that the fittest and strongest of each species are more likely to survive and reproduce than weaker of unfit members of the species |
| delta | a fan-shaped deposit of sediments that forms at the mouth of a river |
| louds | the sediments carried by a stream |
| oxbow lake | a type of lake formed when a sharp curve in a river is cut off from the rest of the river |
| stria | large, deep grooves and scratches in rock, produced by glaciers |
| meander | a winding, looping curve in the course of a river on a soft, flat flood plain |
| leoss | deposits of clay and silt left by a sandstorm |
| Charles Darwin | popularized evolution with the book On the Origin of Species |
| homo habilis | a 3-foot tall,chimpanseelike "missing link" wronly classified in the same genus as man |
| flood plain | a region of level or nearly level land bordering a river, that becomes coveredby river water in flood time |
| Charles Lyell | the geologist who popularized uniformitarianism |
| weathering | the process by which rocks are brokn down by the forces of nature |
| seymoria | a "missing link" one thought to be a transtional form between amphibans and reptiles; nowrecognized as a true amphibian |
| transitional forms | a hypothetical fossil that would sho signs of evolving from ne kind of oganism onto another; a "missing link" |
| dranage basin | the region of land drained by a stream or river system |
| astralopithecines | group of extinct apes o which "lucy" belongs |
| fossils | th preserved remains of plants, animals, or huans in sedimentary rock |
| carbonic acid | a natural acid found in rainwater and ground water that promotes chemical weathering of rocks |
| coeleconth | a "missing link" once thought to be a transitional form between fish and amphibians; found alive in 1938 and discovered to be 100% fish |
| sea stack | a pillar-like structure of rock formed when the middle of a sea arch collapses |
| homo erectus | "upright man" |
| ice age | te period of history during which much of the earths high latiturdes were apparently covered wit glaciers |
| drumln | a low hll formed when a glacier overruns a moraine |
| theistic evolutin | a modified for of evolutionary hypothesis that attpmts to reconcile the Bible and evolution |
| abrasian | sandblasting action ofwindblown sand |
| paleontology | the study of fossils |
| levee | a natural ridge alog the edge of a river channel |
| geological colum | a hypothetical time scale devised by evolutionists that supposedly charts both the earth's history and the sequence of the rock layers in the earth's crust |
| archeopleryx | a "missing link" once thought to be a transitional form between reptiles and birds; now considered a true bird |
| carst regions | regions of the earth's surface where limestone is exposed and abundant |
| morains | the piles of debris left behind when a glacier melts |
| water table | the level of standing ground water beneath the earths surface |
| aluvial sand | a fan-shaped deposit of sediments at the mouth of a dry stream bed in the desert |
| erosian | the process by which soil, sand, or rock fragments produce by weathering are carried away by wind or water |
| principle of uniformaty | states that the same scientific laws in operation today have existed throughout the earth's history |
| polly strat | fossil that extend through several strata |
| nowhere | where is the geological column found in it's entirety in the earth's crust? |
| lack of transitional | what is the most important evidence agains evolution in the fossil record? |
| plating grass/ tarrasing/ planting trees, grass, and other vegitation/ strip cropping / finses/ drainage system/ dams and levees | list three ways to prevent erosion: |
| physical/ chymical | list two types of weathering: |
| continental/ valley | list two types of glaciers: |
| cresent/ parabolic/ transverse | list three types of sand dunes: |
| (blank) | Know the difference between Speciese and Evolution |
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