God's Story
What is the overarching narrative that a person uses to see and interpret the world?
What is a worldview? (p. 3)
What is the term for a living thing?
What is an organism? (p. 8)
What is the term for information that people collect through observation or experiment?
What is data? (p. 14)
What is the science of sorting organisms into groups called?
What is taxonomy? (p. 18)
What does ethics study in relation to life science?
What is the study of applying moral principles to life? (p. 6)
What is God's command to Adam and Eve to fill the earth and have dominion over it called?
What is the Creation Mandate? (p. 4)
What is the ability of an organism to keep its internal processes stable called?
What is homeostasis? (p. 10)
What is a simplified explanation, description, or representation of the world?
What is a model? (p. 15)
What type of cell has a nucleus?
What are eukaryotic cells? (p. 19)
What are the biblical principles for making ethical decisions?
What are the image of God, the Creation Mandate, and considering God’s whole truth? (p. 6–7)
What is the term for when all creation was cursed due to Adam and Eve’s sin?
What is the Fall? (p. 4)
What five characteristics must an organism have to be considered alive?
What are organization, energy, growth, reproduction, and response? (p. 8–9)
What are the two groups in a controlled experiment?
What are the control group and the experimental group? (p. 17)
What is an organism called that gets its energy by eating other organisms?
What is a heterotroph? (p. 19)
What are the three outcomes of applying biblical principles in life science?
What are human flourishing, a thriving creation, and giving God glory? (p. 8)
Who came to Earth to restore creation as part of God's redemption plan?
Who is Jesus? (p. 5)
A snowflake moves, grows, and has an organized crystal structure. Why isn’t it considered alive?
What is because snowflakes don’t consume energy or reproduce? (p. 9)
What variable is changed by the scientist in a controlled experiment?
What is the independent variable? (p. 17)
What is the highest level in the current system of classification for organisms?
What is domain? (p. 19)
According to God’s Word, what is the purpose of eating animals?
What is God has given animals to people for food? (Genesis 9:3; 1 Timothy 4:4–5) (p. 6–7)
What are the three major themes of the Bible's story?
What are Creation, Fall, and Redemption? (p. 4–5)
How do microscopes help scientists study life?
What is by allowing scientists to observe small details of organisms not visible to the naked eye? (p. 12–13)
Is a controlled experiment the same thing as scientific inquiry? Explain.
What is no, a controlled experiment is one tool of scientific inquiry, which is a broader process used to solve problems? (p. 17)
How does classification support a biblical view of life?
What is the view that God established kinds of organisms that reproduce after their kind, in opposition to evolutionary classification? (p. 19)
Why are those who believe God’s Word in the best position to study life science?
What is because they understand the biblical principles that guide the study of life, such as creation, fall, and redemption? (p. 5)