Vocabulary
Observations, explanations, and models produced through an organized study to enable people to exercise good and wise dominion over the world.
What is science?
You notice birds migrate south for the winter.
What is an observation?
People that study rocks.
What are Geologists?
Looking at the world through a Christian lens.
What is Biblical worldview?
Changing only one factor in an experiment.
What is a controlled experiment?
An idea that is assumed to be true but not proven.
What is a presupposition?
The last step in the scientific process.
What is communication (or publishing)?
People that study whales.
What is a Marine Biologist?
Three foundational points of a Christian worldview are Creation, the Fall, and ____________.
What is redemption?
Type of data that is gathered based upon observations or case studies.
What is descriptive data (qualitative)?
A conclusion based upon clues assumed to be true.
What is an inference?
The step in the scientific process where data is calculated.
What is analysis?
A person that looks at wind and weather patterns.
What is a meteorologist?
The earth is 7000 years old.
What is the young earth theory.
(T or F) Secular and creationist scientist disagree about how data should be collected.
What is FALSE?
A model used as a framework to explain many observations
What is a theory?
Exposing plants to more sunlight will promote their growth.
What is a hypothesis?
I like to build the latest space rockets and telescopes.
What is an engineer?
The commandment to study and use the earth and its resources for God’s glory and man’s benefit.
What is the Creation Mandate?
According to an important presupposition of science, for every observable result of a process, there must be a __________.
What is a cause?
Scientific information collected with an instrument containing a numerical scale.
What is measured data (quantitative)?
I wanted to learn about the effect of climate change on polar bears.
What is research?
I study earthquakes and plate movement.
What is a seismologist?
Old earth theory that believes there is billions of years between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2.
What is the Gap Theory?
The information that results from a comparison between global temperature changes in the 1700s and similar changes in the 1900s.
What is derived data?