A rock layer in a sequence of strata. Marine sedimentary strata are assumed to be laid down nearly horizontally. Tectonic processes can tilt, fold, or fault strata.

A secular model of the earth’s geologic history that classifies and arranges rocks in the time periods of their supposed formation from 4.5 billion years ago to the present.

The principle that, in any undisturbed sequence of rock strata, the oldest or first-laid stratum is at the bottom of the sequence and the younger or later layers were placed in order above it.

A model that explains the shape and arrangement of present continents and their features as the product of the slow motion of tectonic plates over millions of years. Continental ____________ Theory

Molten rock deep within the earth. When magma escapes at the earth’s surface, it becomes lava.

The motion of oceanic tectonic plates away from mid-ocean ridges where mantle rocks rise to form new ocean crust. Secular geologists believe sea-floor spreading and subduction are the key processes behind plate tectonics.

The forces, energy, and processes that formed and reshaped the earth’s continents, mountains, and ocean basins. Secular plate tectonics is the major unifying concept that accounts for nearly all geologic processes known today.

A second of the earth’s crust that has tectonic boundaries and moves as a unit compared to other regions of crust. A tectonic plate may be mainly thick continental crust, thin oceanic crust, or include both within a plate.

The tectonic process by which relatively thin and denser oceanic crust slowly slides down and under more massive but less dense continental crust.

The hypothesis that the standard accepted secular model for the origin of all stars and planetary systems throughout the universe.

The name of the original supposed supercontinent

Plate tectonics theory that relies on the Creation narrative in the Bible to account for the origin of the earth’s crust, and the Flood narrative to account for the existence of the continents and nearly all the tectonic features we see today.

_____________ planets are near the sun

Gas ___________________: tend to have more moons than rocky planets

The nebular hypothesis assumes the solar system formed out of a huge cloud of _________ and gas

Creation scientists believe this occurred soon after the Flood. Old-earth scientists believe the most recent one ended around 10,000 years ago.

How many days it took God to created the universe

God judged the world with this global event

Significant atmospheric changes at the end of the ice age trapped, killed, and preserved these large wooly creatures

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Sci Ch 5 2025

The Changing Earth

Term	Definition
stratum	A rock layer in a sequence of strata. Marine sedimentary strata are assumed to be laid down nearly horizontally. Tectonic processes can tilt, fold, or fault strata.
geologiccolumn	A secular model of the earth’s geologic history that classifies and arranges rocks in the time periods of their supposed formation from 4.5 billion years ago to the present.
superposition	The principle that, in any undisturbed sequence of rock strata, the oldest or first-laid stratum is at the bottom of the sequence and the younger or later layers were placed in order above it.
Drift	A model that explains the shape and arrangement of present continents and their features as the product of the slow motion of tectonic plates over millions of years. Continental ____________ Theory
magma	Molten rock deep within the earth. When magma escapes at the earth’s surface, it becomes lava.
seafloorspreading	The motion of oceanic tectonic plates away from mid-ocean ridges where mantle rocks rise to form new ocean crust. Secular geologists believe sea-floor spreading and subduction are the key processes behind plate tectonics.
tectonics	The forces, energy, and processes that formed and reshaped the earth’s continents, mountains, and ocean basins. Secular plate tectonics is the major unifying concept that accounts for nearly all geologic processes known today.
plate	A second of the earth’s crust that has tectonic boundaries and moves as a unit compared to other regions of crust. A tectonic plate may be mainly thick continental crust, thin oceanic crust, or include both within a plate.
subduction	The tectonic process by which relatively thin and denser oceanic crust slowly slides down and under more massive but less dense continental crust.
nebular	The hypothesis that the standard accepted secular model for the origin of all stars and planetary systems throughout the universe.
supercontinent	A big continent
Pangaea	The name of the original supposed supercontinent
diluvial	Time scale based off the Flood
catastrophic	Plate tectonics theory that relies on the Creation narrative in the Bible to account for the origin of the earth’s crust, and the Flood narrative to account for the existence of the continents and nearly all the tectonic features we see today.
Rocky	_____________ planets are near the sun
Giants	Gas ___________________: tend to have more moons than rocky planets
Dust	The nebular hypothesis assumes the solar system formed out of a huge cloud of _________ and gas
iceage	Creation scientists believe this occurred soon after the Flood. Old-earth scientists believe the most recent one ended around 10,000 years ago.
six	How many days it took God to created the universe
flood	God judged the world with this global event
mammoths	Significant atmospheric changes at the end of the ice age trapped, killed, and preserved these large wooly creatures

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