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An experiment designed to figure out why clouds form as air rises over a mountain.
What is pure science?
This historical document passes all 3 tests better than any other document.
What is the Bible?
Objects made by people, such as tools, weapons, containers, etc.
What are artifacts?
If an artifact is found in a lower layer of rock with several layers on top, would the artifact be older or younger than artifacts found in top layers?
What is older?
Notable layers in the earth, soil, or rock.
What is strata?
The study of life's history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms.
What is Paleontology?
Tests whether the document agrees with itself.
What is an internal test?
A pattern used in dendrochronology to compare to other trees to help in determining age.
What are master tree rings?
The study of past human life as revealed by preserved data.
What is Archaeology?
An estimated age by comparing whether something is older or younger than a second artifact.
What is relative age?
A term that encompasses all scientific pursuits related to living organisms.
What is life science?
An experiment designed to make a computer process information at a faster rate.
What is applied science?
An experiment designed to determine how to cause tomato plants to produce more tomatoes.
What is applied science?
This type of dating determines an artifacts age by the amount of the substance by the same name that remains in it.
What is carbon-14 dating?
An experiment designed to determine how clouds affect air temperature.
Examples are a microwave, television, computer, etc...
What is technology?
The most reliable method of dating objects - accurate to about 8,000 years.
What is dendrochronology?
The age of an artifact determined by a date printed on it or a reference to the artifact in a reliable work of history.
What is known age?
This is not a known age but given using dendrochronology.
What is an assigned age?
When artifacts are found in rock or earth that is layered, the deeper layers hold the older artifacts.
What is the principle of superposition?
The study of Earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the Earth.
What is Geology?
Tests whether the document contradicts other known historical facts from other reliable documents or known archaeological facts.
What is an external test?
The process of counting tree rings to determine their age.
What is dendrochronology?
What is a bibliographic test?