Chapter 1 Vocab Terms

Question 1

Cycle of scientific enterprise

Answer 1

The cycle of hypothesis, experiment, analysis, review and theory

Question 2

Experiment

Answer 2

A scientific test of a hypothesis

Question 3

General revolution

Answer 3

The revolution of truth in creation, discernible to all who observe it

Question 4

Special revolution

Answer 4

Revolution of truth in the Bible, God’s word

Question 5

Science

Answer 5

The process of using experimentation, observation, and reasoning to develop mental models of the natural world

Question 6

Hypothesis

Answer 6

Testable, inform prediction based on a theory about what happened in certain conditions

Question 7

Scientific fact

Answer 7

A statement supported by a lot of scientific evidence that is correct as far as we know

Question 8

Truth

Answer 8

The way things are

Question 9

Mental model

Answer 9

Representation of explanation

Question 10

Scientific method

Answer 10

An objective, standardize process that describes how to conduct valid experimental research

Question 11

Theory 1

Answer 11

1. Theory is a representation of how part of the natural world works

2.Theories are mental models

3.Theory should account for known facts (so far as possible)

4.Scientific theories must enable scientist, to formulate new hypothesis