Fossil Quiz 2: Chapters 2-3

Question 1

Define fossils

Answer 1

fossils used to identify a geologic system because they lived either (a) at a certain time or (b) in a certain place in the pre-Flood world

Question 2

Define Geologic column

Answer 2

a columnar diagram identifying rocky layers (strata) that form a sequence from bottom to top to indicate their relationship to the twelve geological systems

Question 3

Define living fossils

Answer 3

creatures found alive today that evolutionists thought became extinct millions of years ago

Question 4

Define trilobite

Answer 4

a crab-like creature was the first fossil found buried in abundance around the world

Question 5

Define Cambrian explosion

Answer 5

the sudden appearance of a wide variety of complex life forms in the lowest rock layer with abundant fossils. (Cambrian); considered a challenge to evolution, these may be the first organisms in a corrupted creation to be buried in Noah’s flood.

Question 6

Define cavitations

Answer 6

bubbles formed by surging waters

Question 7

Define Paraconformities

Answer 7

a gap without erosion in the geologic column diagram; breaks the time sequence assumed by evolution, and may suggest fossils from different environments were rapidly buried by a lot of water, not a lot of time

Question 8

Define stromatolites

Answer 8

banded rock deposits formed by blue-greens growing in mossy mats on rocks in the tidal zone along the shore; the mats trap and then cement sand grains to form a mineral layer, continually building new layers on top of earlier ones

Question 9

In what types of rock are most fossils found? Where can we see these layers of rock?

Answer 9

Sedimentary rocks (limestome, shale, sandstone); cliffs, cuts, creeks, and quarries

Question 10

How many major geologic systems have been named? How many “super systems”?

Answer 10

12; 3

Question 11

Who said that fossils are “perhaps the most obvious and serious objection to the theory of evolution”? Why is this significant?

Answer 11

Charles Darwin; Charles Darwin realized that evolution needed viable evidence of transitions from one animal into another; without them, evolution could not be validated

Question 12

According to Flood geologists, what does the geological column show?

Answer 12

a series of burials

Question 13

Explain why fossils of sea creatures are found throughout the geologic column while animals and land plants tend to be found higher in the column.

Answer 13

Since they were buried later in Noah’s flood, paleosystems with land plants and animals occur higher in the geologic column diagram than those with only sea creatures, but fossils of sea life occur in all geologic systems or eco-sedimentary zones since the Flood waters eventually covered all the land.

Question 14

What tilted the basement rocks of the earth’s surface?

Answer 14

The waters that burst out of the deep during Noah’s Flood

Question 15

How do the crystalline basement rocks found in Grand Canyon give testimony against millions of years of erosion?

Answer 15

If the millions of years scenario were true and erosion occurred gradually, the softer rock would be gone and the hard rock would stick up into the sediment above. However, the tilted layers have been sheared off in a nearly straight line.

Question 16

Describe the “breached dam” concept for the formation of Grand Canyon.

Answer 16

The bottom layers were most likely formed in the years before the Flood and sheared off during the beginning stages of the Flood. The upper layers were set into place during the Flood. Tectonic activity pushed these layers up as the water receded from the earth’s surface during the later stages of the Flood. Water became trapped by earthen dams, which finally broke years after the Flood and released water to where we see the Colorado River through the gorge of Grand Canyon.

Question 17

What event supported the Flood geologists’ interpretation fo Grand Canyon’s formation?

Answer 17

Mount St. Helens