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Lesson 10

Exploring Planet Earth

Exploring Planet Earth
by John Tiner

Lesson 7: Into the heart of a glacier / Rivers—Earth’s lifeline

Textbook:

Exploring Planet Earth

These lessons supplement the lessons in the textbook, which are located at the end of each chapter.

Text:

Pages 90-109

Scripture:

• Genesis 1:11, 12, 21, 24, 25
• Job 38:22
• Eccles. 1:7

Activity:

1. Visit your local library and find more information on Louis Agassiz.
2. Get a large world map. Using a colored marker, trace the route of the rivers mentioned in this lesson (Mississippi, Yangtze, Amazon, Nile). Then, find as many tributaries for each river as possible and use a different colored marker to trace those. Keep going and see how far out from the main river you can find smaller rivers.

Additional articles:

• Holy War? Who really opposed Darwin?
• The creationist basis for modern science
• British scriptural geologists in the first half of the 19th century
• Q&A: Fossils
• Q&A: Natural Selection