Vocab
Cycle of Scientific Enterprise
Its all Science
History vs Science
God
Resources
100
To know things by observation, experiments, and reason.
What is science?
100
A statement that is supported by large amount of evidence (so far as we know).
What is a scientific fact?
100
Science that tests hypotheses by conducting planned, repeated and well-controlled experiments.
What is experimental science?
100
These are three examples of Historical Science.
What are geology, archeology, and paleontology?
100
These are three ways God reveals himself to us.
What are through Jesus, the Bible and through studying the creation of the universe?
100
Something provided by Earth that human beings can use.
What is a natural resource?
200
The rigid outer layer of Earth’s crust and mantle.
What is the lithosphere?
200
An explanation that seeks to account for all related facts; a mental model that explains how something works in the universe.
What is theory?
200
A science investigation about events in the past. These events can be modeled in a lab or computer, but NOT repeated.
What is historical science?
200
These are the three challenges of historical science.
What are scalability, accessibility, and complexity?
200
This is why science is not in conflict with Christianity.
What is God's truth is the only truth?
or
What is when we study God's creation through science, we study His truth?
200
A resource that can be replaced as it is used.
What is a renewable resource?
300
An experiment in which all variables are kept constant except for the one variable that is the focus of the experiment.
What is a controlled experiment?
300
A proposed answer to a scientific question.
What is a hypothesis?
300
These are the eight steps of the scientific method (in order).
What are:
State the problem
Research the problem
Form a hypothesis
Conduct and experiment
Collect data
Analyze the data
Form a conclusion
Repeat the work
300
The ability of processes in a scale model to work in the same way as they do in nature.
What is scalability?
300
This is why we, as Catholics, say that the universe was created.
What is God created the universe for us. He loves us and wants us to take part in the Beatific Vision with him in heaven forever?
300
These are two examples of living resources.
What are plants and animals?
400
The wise and prudent management of things entrusted to us.
What is stewardship?
400
This tests the hypothesis in an organized manner.
What is an experiment?
400
Analysis of scientific experiment results can be categorized as these two.
What are:
Supports
Does not support (includes unexpected results)?
400
The ease or difficulty of getting to a place.
What is accessibility?
400
A resource that is not replaced once it is removed from nature for human use.
What is a non-renewable resource?
400
These are two examples of nonliving resources.
What are water and rocks?
500
The ability to maintain the productivity of the creation for a long, or even indefinite amount of time.
What is sustainability?
500
Hypothesis are based on these.
What are theories?
500
These are the three outcomes of unexpected results of a scientific experiment.
What are:
modify the theory
perform additional testing
examine the experiment?
500
The state of having many different things happening at one place or over time.
What is complexity?
500
What is hahaha?
500
These are just four examples of degradation of Earth.
What are
Degradation of water
Degradation of air
Degradation of life
Degradation of soil?