Science and Technology
This type of science is done just to learn and understand.
What is Pure Science?
The study of past human life through artifacts is called ___.
What is Archaeology?
The test that checks if a document agrees with itself is called the ___.
What is the Internal Test?
The study of rocks, earth, and layers is called ___.
What is Geology?
If a document disagrees with itself, it fails the ___.
What is the Internal Test?
This type of science is used to solve problems and make life better.
What is Applied Science?
Objects made and used by humans in the past are called ___.
What are Artifacts?
The test that checks if a document agrees with known history is called the ___.
What is the External Test?
The study of fossils is called ___.
What is Paleontology?
Archaeologists use this principle to guess ages of artifacts in rock layers.
What is the Principle of Superposition?
Machines or processes that make life easier are called ___.
What is Technology?
If an artifact has a date printed on it, that is its ___.
What is Known Age?
The test that checks how many years passed from the original to a copy is called the ___.
What is the Bibliographic Test?
Using tree rings to tell age is called ___.
What is Dendrochronology?
The study of preserved relics to learn about the past is called ___.
What is Archaeology?
The study of living things like plants, animals, and humans is called ___.
What is Life Science?
An artifact found deeper in the ground is usually ___ than one found near the surface.
What is Older?
The shorter the time between original and copy, the more ___ the document is.
What is Reliable?
The principle that deeper layers are older is called the ___.
What is the Principle of Superposition?
The Bible has more than 5,800 copies of the New Testament. Which test does this support?
What is the Bibliographic Test?
Name one example of technology that makes your daily life easier.
What is ___? (answers may vary: phones, computers, cars, etc.)
If you don’t know the exact age of an artifact but can tell whether it is older or younger than another, you are finding its ___.
What is Relative Age?
To pass the bibliographic test, a document must have a short time span and many ___.
What are Copies?
Scientists sometimes use radioactive elements to find the age of an artifact. This method is called ___.
What is Radiometric Dating?
Besides telling a tree’s age, dendrochronology can also tell about past ___ conditions.
What is Climate (or Weather)?