The earth scientist who studies the solid part of the earth.
What is a geologist?
100
Three reasons for a Christian to study earth science.
What are helping others, redeeming the mind, and declaring God's glory.
100
A model that describes the way different kinds of measurable, physical quantities relate to each other.
What is a scientific law
100
Knowledge and organized methods of observing the earth and its processes using appropriate tools.
What is earth science?
100
The process of organizing and classifying data as well as looking for patterns in the data.
What is analyzing the data?
200
An earth scientist that studies the weather.
What is a meteorologist?
200
Ideas that are not proven to be true, but are ideas that you assume to be true based on your beliefs.
What are presuppositions?
200
An educated guess as to the answer to a scientific question
What is a hypothesis?
200
The term which describes the kind of "science" used to explain past events which cannot be observed or recreated.
What is historical science?
200
When your results are communicated in any of a variety of ways to others.
What is publishing results?
300
An earth scientist who focuses his attention on the ocean.
What is a marine scientist?
300
Your overall perspective based on what you believe.
What is your worldview?
300
A framework for describing for explaining one's observations.
What is a scientific theory?
300
The type of science based on careful observation and proper use of the scientific method-it is measurable, repeatable, and observable.
What is operational science?
300
The first step of the scientific method.
What is forming a question?
400
An earth scientist who concentrates his time studying the water cycle including movement of ground and surface water.
What is a hydrologist?
400
The idea that man was given authority by God to reign over the earth and all of the creatures on the earth and that man should use the resources of the earth wisely and take care of them.
What is the creation mandate?
400
A logical conclusion that a scientist arrives at based on observations and prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
400
The idea that things we observe today probably worked the same in the past.
What is principle of uniformity?
400
The type of experimental design limits the independent variable to one thing being tested and keeps as many other variables exactly the same.
What is a controlled experiment?
500
An earth scientist who focuses on earthquakes.
What is a seismologist?
500
The theory that there is a span of time between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2.
What is the Gap Theory?
500
Data obtained from analysis of data gained from an experiment.
What is derived data?
500
For anything that is an observable result of a process, there must be an adequate cause.
What is the principle of cause and effect?
500
the order of the scientific method
What is asking a question, conducting initial research, stating a hypothesis, collecting data, analyzing data, drawing conclusions, and publishing results.