Chapter 1a
What is it called that shapes your beliefs and values, and will guide you as you make choices in life?
Worldview
What do Biologists call living things?
Organisms
Type of data that scientist collect using words and descriptions.
Qualitative
What is Scientific inquiry?
The use of skills and tools to answer a questions or solve a problem.
List the steps of the scientific process.
Observe
Hypothesis
Test (Control and Experimental Groups)
Analyze
Conclusion
Communicate
What study is all about using moral principles?
Ethics
All living things are made of cells. What is it called to be made of one cell, and what is it called to be made of many cells?
Unicellular and Multicellular
Type of data scientist collect using data and numbers.
Quantitative
What is a controlled experiment?
The way a scientist tests an idea by examining the effect of one factor at a time.
What do you call the sorting of organisms into groups?
Taxonomy
Go "fill the earth and have dominion over it". What mandate was this given to Adam and Eve, from God?
The Creation Mandate
What are 5 characteristics of Life?
Organization of cells, Use of Energy, Growth, Reproduction, and ability to respond to their environment.
What scientist use to EXPLAIN the data they have collected.
Theory
What are variables?
Factors that change
What 3 traits do scientist consider to classify organisms?
Types of Cells (Eukaryotic / Prokaryotic)
Number of Cells
How the get their energy (autotrophs / heterotrophs)
What are you considering if you ask What does the Bible say about this?
Biblical Principles
What term is given to an organisms ability to keep its internal processes stable?
Homeostasis
What is it called that scientist use to DESCRIBE what they observe?
Scientific Law
What is an independent variable?
The variable the scientist changes.
What cells have a nucleus?
What cells do not have a nucleus?
What organisms get energy from their environment?
What organisms get energy from eating other organisms?
Eukaryotic
Prokaryotic
Autotrophs
Heterotrophs
What are you considering if you ask what the results will be and use the Bible to guide you in determining a possible answer?
Biblical Outcomes
Whose image are you made in?
God's
Describe how models can help in the study of life science.
Actual models or graphs can help simplify something in the world in order to explain describe, or represent.
What is a dependent variable?
The variables that were an EFFECT of the change caused by the scientist. But NOT CHANGED directly by the scientist.
List the levels of taxonomy?
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Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species