Types of Science
A term that encompasses all scientific pursuits related to living organisms.
What is life science?
The study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics.
What is Archaeology?
Critically examining texts to determine if they are accurate.
What is textual criticism?
Objects made by people, such as tools, weapons, containers, etc
What is an artifact?
If you were to cut down a tree and look at the inside of its trunk, you would find a series of rings called...
What are growth rings (tree rings)?
Science primarily focused on asking questions with the goal of learning why something in creation happens the way it does.
What is pure science?
The study of Earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the Earth.
What is geology?
Part of the eclecticism process, looks at whether the document agrees with itself. Meaning the document cannot make a statement and then disagree with that statement in another part of the document.
What is internal test?
The age of an artifact as determined by a date printed on it or a reference to the artifact in a work of history.
What is known age?
If you cannot find the known age or an assigned age, there is a way that you can determine the age of an object. This age is not an exact number but rather a determination of whether an artifact is older or younger than another artifact.
What is relative age?
This type of science focuses on identifying something useful and make something better.
What is Applied Science?
The study of life's history as revealed in the preserved remains of once-living organisms.
What is paleontology?
Part of the eclecticism process, which asks the question "Does the document contradict other known historical facts?"
What is external test?
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree.
What is dendrochronology?
When an archaeologist or geologist digs into the earth, the soil or rock is often found in notable layers.
What is strata?
The new process or machine that makes life better or makes a job easier.
What is technology?
The branch of science that deals with the physical universe beyond Earth's atmosphere.
What is Astronomy?
Part of the eclecticism process, in which a work should have either direct eyewitness accounts or a secondhand report based on those eyewitness accounts.
What is the bibliographic test?
Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item.
What is Radiometric dating (or Carbon-14 dating)?
When artifacts are found in rock or earth that is layered, the deeper layers hold the older artifacts.
What is principle of superposition?