BILLY SCIENCE TEST 5 - LESSON 71 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS
Index fossil - Correct Answer If a rock layer contained a fossil of the sea snail Nerinea
trinodosa, evolutionist would classify the rock layer as Jurassic and assign it a date of 150 to 200
million years old. What is the Nerinea trinodosa being used as?
Eon - Correct Answer What is the first and largest division of the geologic column?
People feel free to act however they desire - Correct Answer Which of the following is a moral
consequence of a belief in evolution?
Neither Creation nor evolution can be tested scientifically - Correct Answer Why is the conflict
between Creation and evolution not about what science says but about what man believes?
Mold fossil - Correct Answer What type of fossil forms when mud buries a plant or animal and
quickly hardens into rock, leaving the impression after the plant or animal decays?
Stasis - Correct Answer What term describes an organism that shows no change between its
appearance in the fossil record and its appearance in the present day
Punctuated equilibrium - Correct Answer Which idea suggest that new kinds of organisms are a
result of rapid genetic changes that supposedly bring about a new organism in a very short
time?
Inbreeding reveals hidden characteristics within a kind - Correct Answer How does inbreeding
help form new species within a kind?
Half life - Correct Answer What term refers to the amount of time needed for half of a parent
element to decay into its fighter elements
, George Cuvier - Correct Answer Which scientist for suggested that many catastrophes have
shapers geological features?
Charles Lyell - Correct Answer Who popularized the idea that geological processes have always
occurred at their current rates?
Transitional forms must be fully functional at every step - Correct Answer Why is the existence
of transitional forms between creatures like a rodent in about impossible?
The same strata also contained modern human skulls - Correct Answer Which of the following
statements best describes why Java man cannot be considered a human ancestor?
Principle of uniformity - Correct Answer What principle states that the same scientific laws in
operation today have existed throughout the earth's history?
Carbon-14 dating - Correct Answer What well-known dating method is usually used only to
date organic materials?
Ramapithecus - Correct Answer Supposed human ancestor that was originally constructed
from a few tea and bone fragments and is now known to have resembled an orangutan
Homo habilis - Correct Answer Champanzee-like "missing link" whose name means
"handyman"
Neanderthal man - Correct Answer Human "ancestor" who was fully human but probably had
rickets
Home erectus - Correct Answer Species of Java man
AND CORRECT SOLUTIONS
Index fossil - Correct Answer If a rock layer contained a fossil of the sea snail Nerinea
trinodosa, evolutionist would classify the rock layer as Jurassic and assign it a date of 150 to 200
million years old. What is the Nerinea trinodosa being used as?
Eon - Correct Answer What is the first and largest division of the geologic column?
People feel free to act however they desire - Correct Answer Which of the following is a moral
consequence of a belief in evolution?
Neither Creation nor evolution can be tested scientifically - Correct Answer Why is the conflict
between Creation and evolution not about what science says but about what man believes?
Mold fossil - Correct Answer What type of fossil forms when mud buries a plant or animal and
quickly hardens into rock, leaving the impression after the plant or animal decays?
Stasis - Correct Answer What term describes an organism that shows no change between its
appearance in the fossil record and its appearance in the present day
Punctuated equilibrium - Correct Answer Which idea suggest that new kinds of organisms are a
result of rapid genetic changes that supposedly bring about a new organism in a very short
time?
Inbreeding reveals hidden characteristics within a kind - Correct Answer How does inbreeding
help form new species within a kind?
Half life - Correct Answer What term refers to the amount of time needed for half of a parent
element to decay into its fighter elements
, George Cuvier - Correct Answer Which scientist for suggested that many catastrophes have
shapers geological features?
Charles Lyell - Correct Answer Who popularized the idea that geological processes have always
occurred at their current rates?
Transitional forms must be fully functional at every step - Correct Answer Why is the existence
of transitional forms between creatures like a rodent in about impossible?
The same strata also contained modern human skulls - Correct Answer Which of the following
statements best describes why Java man cannot be considered a human ancestor?
Principle of uniformity - Correct Answer What principle states that the same scientific laws in
operation today have existed throughout the earth's history?
Carbon-14 dating - Correct Answer What well-known dating method is usually used only to
date organic materials?
Ramapithecus - Correct Answer Supposed human ancestor that was originally constructed
from a few tea and bone fragments and is now known to have resembled an orangutan
Homo habilis - Correct Answer Champanzee-like "missing link" whose name means
"handyman"
Neanderthal man - Correct Answer Human "ancestor" who was fully human but probably had
rickets
Home erectus - Correct Answer Species of Java man
