FES Test 1

Question 1

epoch

Answer 1

period of time; time interval

Question 2

epistemology

Answer 2

study of how we know what we know

Question 3

faith filter

Answer 3

world-view

Question 4

observation

Answer 4

physically sensed information

Question 5

hypothesis

Answer 5

tentative explanation of an observation

Question 6

diaspora

Answer 6

dispersion of a people group; especially applied to Jews

Question 7

autonomous

Answer 7

unaccountable to a higher authority

Question 8

Renaissance

Answer 8

rebirth of Greek and Roman paganism, c. 1300-1500 AD

Question 9

Pre-Flood epoch

Answer 9

time from creation to flood, c. 5000-3000 BC

Question 10

Post-Flood epoch

Answer 10

time from flood to Babel, c. 3000-2500 BC

Question 11

Old Testament epoch

Answer 11

from Babel to the last OT prophet, c. 2500-400 BC

Question 12

Greco-Roman epoch

Answer 12

from end of OT to Reformation, 400 BC - 1500 AD

Question 13

Modern epoch

Answer 13

time from Reformation to present day

Question 14

hybridization

Answer 14

crossing of species or varieties

Question 15

Pythagorean theorem

Answer 15

mathematical law describing right triangles

Question 16

Alexandria

Answer 16

Egyptian city founded by Alexander the Great C. 330 BC

Question 17

oxygen debt

Answer 17

painful depletion of oxygen in muscles with exercise

Question 18

uniformitarianism

Answer 18

changes now occurring have always occurred; (false)

Question 19

Black Death

Answer 19

bubonic plague occurring as an epidemic, c. 1300-1700

Question 20

extrapolation

Answer 20

perception of the past or future based upon the present

Question 21

Dominion Mandate

Answer 21

man to be a steward over the earth; Genesis 1:28