UVIC BIO 400 FINAL - GEOLOGY UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Answer:
(1707-1788) A French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste from France.
His works influenced Lamarck and Cuvier.
Attempted to estimate the age of the Earth with a cooling metal ball.
Question:
2. What is a drumlin?
Answer:
A long mound that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier's flow.
Question:
3. What is a glacial erratic?
Answer:
An ice-transported boulder that was not derived from the bedrock near its present site.
Question:
4. What are some examples of glacial erratics in our world today?
Answer:
"Big Rock" in Okotoks, Alberta "White Rock" in White Rock, BC "Harpoon Rock", Victoria, BC
Question:
5. Give an example of how knowledge of geology is useful in finding valuable minerals and metals?
Answer:
Location of diamonds requires prediction of diamond formations and, therefore, knowledge of geology.
Question:
6. Where did mountains come from, according to Bible scripture?
Answer:
People thought mountains were what was left over after the great flood.
Question:
7. What did people think of the appearance mountains in the past (prior to the understanding of plate
tectonics)? What did they do in response?
Answer:
They thought mountains were ugly, requested that any line of sight of such ugly mountains be obscured
(by blinds in a carriage for example).
Question:
8. Where do rivers come from?
, Answer:
Underground springs, melting glaciers, rainfall.
Question:
9. What is a fossil? Provide a few examples.
Answer:
A fossil is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
For example: Trilobite, ammonite (related to the chambered nautilus), insects preserved in amber, some
plants as well, animal bones, etc.
Question:
10. How do theologians explain the existence of fossils?
Answer:
God buried them, and that these were animals mistakenly made by God.
Question:
11. What mysterious terrestrial phenomenon inspired Newton to eventually derive a universal law of
gravitation?
Answer:
The tides
Question:
12. According to Newton, if we could understand the tides with simple physical principles, then perhaps
we could understand other phenomena with other kinds of _________________.
Answer:
Simple physical principles.
Question:
13. Archbishop James Ussher
Answer:
(1581-1656) Was the Church of Ireland Archbishop between 1625 and
1656. Early attempt to understand the age of the earth using extensive Biblical and non-Biblical research,
which resulted in a 2000-page chronology of all human history.
Question:
14. Title of Archbishop James Ussher's book
Answer:
The Annals of the World
Question:
15. What reason did Archbishop James Ussher use to pick the time of creation at 12:00 noon?
Answer:
It just seemed right
Question:
16. The implication of the ___________ view is that only one geological event in history significantly
shaped the Earth: _____________________________
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Answer:
(1707-1788) A French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopédiste from France.
His works influenced Lamarck and Cuvier.
Attempted to estimate the age of the Earth with a cooling metal ball.
Question:
2. What is a drumlin?
Answer:
A long mound that is smoothed in the direction of the glacier's flow.
Question:
3. What is a glacial erratic?
Answer:
An ice-transported boulder that was not derived from the bedrock near its present site.
Question:
4. What are some examples of glacial erratics in our world today?
Answer:
"Big Rock" in Okotoks, Alberta "White Rock" in White Rock, BC "Harpoon Rock", Victoria, BC
Question:
5. Give an example of how knowledge of geology is useful in finding valuable minerals and metals?
Answer:
Location of diamonds requires prediction of diamond formations and, therefore, knowledge of geology.
Question:
6. Where did mountains come from, according to Bible scripture?
Answer:
People thought mountains were what was left over after the great flood.
Question:
7. What did people think of the appearance mountains in the past (prior to the understanding of plate
tectonics)? What did they do in response?
Answer:
They thought mountains were ugly, requested that any line of sight of such ugly mountains be obscured
(by blinds in a carriage for example).
Question:
8. Where do rivers come from?
, Answer:
Underground springs, melting glaciers, rainfall.
Question:
9. What is a fossil? Provide a few examples.
Answer:
A fossil is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
For example: Trilobite, ammonite (related to the chambered nautilus), insects preserved in amber, some
plants as well, animal bones, etc.
Question:
10. How do theologians explain the existence of fossils?
Answer:
God buried them, and that these were animals mistakenly made by God.
Question:
11. What mysterious terrestrial phenomenon inspired Newton to eventually derive a universal law of
gravitation?
Answer:
The tides
Question:
12. According to Newton, if we could understand the tides with simple physical principles, then perhaps
we could understand other phenomena with other kinds of _________________.
Answer:
Simple physical principles.
Question:
13. Archbishop James Ussher
Answer:
(1581-1656) Was the Church of Ireland Archbishop between 1625 and
1656. Early attempt to understand the age of the earth using extensive Biblical and non-Biblical research,
which resulted in a 2000-page chronology of all human history.
Question:
14. Title of Archbishop James Ussher's book
Answer:
The Annals of the World
Question:
15. What reason did Archbishop James Ussher use to pick the time of creation at 12:00 noon?
Answer:
It just seemed right
Question:
16. The implication of the ___________ view is that only one geological event in history significantly
shaped the Earth: _____________________________
