Vocabulary II

Question 1

Catastrophism

Answer 1

the assumption that whatever happened in the past could have been impacted by cataclysmic/catastrophic events that accelerated current processes

Question 2

Lithification

Answer 2

where sediment deposits are cemented together by pressure over time

Question 3

GISP

Answer 3

Greenland ice sheet project

Question 4

GRIP

Answer 4

North Greenland ice core project

Question 5

Annual ice core layers

Answer 5

Ice core layers that include one winter season and one summer season

Question 6

Sub-annual ice core layers

Answer 6

Ice core layers that can be several snowstorms during a particular year

Question 7

YEC

Answer 7

Young Earth Creationists, believe in literal 24/7 Biblical Creation and catastrophism

Question 8

OEC

Answer 8

Old Earth Creationists, believe in long Biblical Creation and Uniformitarianism

Question 9

Uniformitarianism

Answer 9

the assumption that whatever events are happening on the earth now, at its present rate, has always happened in the past at that rate “The present is the key to the past”