Worldview
Characteristics of Life
Experiments
Classification
Vocabulary
100

The worldview that proposes that living things come from natural processes.

What is naturalism/naturalistic worldview?

100

The fact that living organisms show some sort of structure/engineering.

What is organization?

100

The group in an experiment that is treated normally, without any change in variables.

What is a control group?

100

It helps us understand the variety of life, manage creation, and fulfill the Creation Mandate.

What does classification help with?  OR How does classification help?

100
Data from descriptions and words.

What is qualitative data?

200

Creation, Fall, and Redemption

What are the 3 main parts of the grand narrative of a biblical worldview?

200

The characteristic where organisms create more of themselves.

What is reproduction?

200

Observe, Test, Analyze, and Communicate

What are the main parts of a controlled experiment?

200

This level of classification contains the least number of organisms, or is the most specific level.

What is species?

200
Is made up of many cells.

What is multicellular?

300

Living cells are a product of random chance and natural processes.

What is naturalism/naturalistic worldview.

300

The characteristic showing that organisms have to eat or create their own food supply in order to move/live.

What is a need for energy?

300

The factors that change in an experiment.

What is a variable?

300

The name of an organism that comes from the genus and species names.

What is a scientific name?

300

The ability of an organism to keep itself in stable condition, such as a human sweating to keep its temperature regulated.

What is homeostasis?

400

This worldview seeks to give God glory, help creation thrive, and help people flourish.

What is a biblical worldview?

400

Organisms developing and/or getting larger or mature over time.

What is growth?
400

Information collected using numbers.

Quantitative Data
400

This type of organism can make its own food/energy supply.

What is an Autotroph?

400

What is the science of sorting organisms into groups?

What is taxonomy?

500
This worldview sometimes wants to alter the classification system to show the relationship between organisms and a common ancestor.

What is naturalism/naturalistic worldview?

500

Organisms reacting to stimuli/things around it in the environment.

What is responding to the environment?

500

A statement of a scientist’s prediction.

What is a hypothesis?

500

This level of classification is the largest level and includes the most number of living organisms. 

What is domain?

500

Does not have a nucleus in its cell.

What is prokaryotic?

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