Why Study Earth Science?
Scientists
Models and Data
The Scientific Process
Definitions
100

All humans are valuable because they are this

What is made in God's image?

100
Creationists and secular scientists can have the same information but come to different conclusions because they have different _________ of data.

What are interpretations?

100

A workable explanation of what the scientist thinks is happening

What is a scientific model?

100

An initial explanation that guides a scientist's research

What is a hypothesis?

100

An idea that is assumed to be true

What is a presupposition? 

200

The overall perspective that we use to see and interpret world - is based on presuppositions 

What is a worldview?

200

A young-earth creationist believes the earth is about this old

What is 7,000 years?

200
True or False: A model is only acceptable if it perfectly portrays the data they are intended to represent

What is false?

200
True or False: A hypothesis should be as complicated as possible

What is false?

200

The process by which God restores all things to their original purpose of glorifying Him

What is redemption?

300

The commandment given by God (Genesis 1:28) to fill the earth and have dominion over it (we should use the earth's resources for God's glory and man's benefit)

What is the Creation Mandate?

300

A geologist who works in petrology would be interested mainly in identifying these and explaining how they formed

What are rocks and minerals?

300

Scientists prefer this type of experiment because it allows only one factor to vary

What is a controlled experiment?

300

The last step in the scientific process

What is publishing results?

300

Observations, explanations, and models produced through an organized study of nature to enable people to exercise good and wise dominion over the world.

What is science?

400

For every observable result of a process, there must be an adequate _________.

What is a cause?

400

When scientists try to find explanations for scientific questions that apply to present-day problems.

What is operational science?

400

This type of data is collected with an instrument containing a numerical scale (rulers, thermometers, etc.)

What is measured data?

400

Before you form a hypothesis, you should first conduct initial _________.

What is research?

400

A conclusion that is drawn from an assumed truth

What is an inference?

500

The foundational points of a Christian's worldview are based on these three things

What is creation, the fall, and redemption?

500

A seismologist, a scientist who studies faults and earthquakes, is in this category of scientists

What are geologists?

500

This type of data is usually words, not numbers (ex. a mineral has a glassy luster)

What is descriptive data?

500

Creating a model to organize and explain the data happens in this step of the scientific process

What is analyzing data?

500

A model used as a framework to explain many observations

What is a theory?

600

An idea that DOES NOT take into account spiritual things, especially things of the Bible

What is a secular idea?

600
A scientist studying water chemistry in a lake would most likely be this

What is a hydrologist?

600
Data that has been analyzed

What is derived data?

600

The idea that the world operates in predictable and reliable ways is called this

What is the Principal of Uniformity?

600

A description that may include an equation with symbols

What is a law?

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