Unit 1- The world of earth science

Question 1

What is earth science?

Answer 1

The knowledge and organized methods of observing the earth and its processes using appropriate tools

Question 2

What is a controlled variable?

Answer 2

A variable that is not changed

Question 3

What is an independent variable?

Answer 3

A variable that is changed

Question 4

What is a control group?

Answer 4

The group that does not receive the experimental treatment

Question 5

What is the creation mandate?

Answer 5

God’s command in Genesis 1:28 Requires that man “subdue” or have stewardship over the earth

Question 6

What is measured data?

Answer 6

Data collected by using instruments and counting

Question 7

What is the scientific process/ method?

Answer 7

The process by which scientists formulate a hypothesis, gather data by observation, and experimentation, and come to a conclusion

Question 8

What is Data?

Answer 8

Any information scientists collect by observing nature

Question 9

What is an inference?

Answer 9

A conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning

Question 10

What is the scientific law?

Answer 10

Describe things often by using equations or by stating rules

Question 11

What is descriptive data?

Answer 11

Data collected by using words not numbers

Question 12

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 12

an initial explanation for a problem

Question 13

What does Genesis 1:26-27 say?

Answer 13

Then God said “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the heavens, the livestock, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. So God created man in his image, the image of God he created them. Male and female, he created them.

Question 14

What is redemption?

Answer 14

The restoring of something to the way it should be by paying a price

Question 15

What is a dependent variable?

Answer 15

A variable that is measured

Question 16

What is an experimental group?

Answer 16

The group that receives the variable being tested

Question 17

Mark 12: 30 - 31

Answer 17

Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: love your neighbor as yourself. There is no greater commandment than these.

Question 18

What is measured Data?

Answer 18

Data collected by using instruments and counting

Question 19

What is a Theory?

Answer 19

A model that scientists use as a framework to explain their observations

Question 20

What is Science?

Answer 20

The collection of observations, explanations, and models produced through an organized study of nature

Question 21

What is the summary of the creation Mandate?

Answer 21

To increase the population and rule over the creation

Question 22

What does Genesis 1:26-27 tell us about why we are important to God?

Answer 22

We are made in his image and likeness to rule over the creatures of the earth

Question 23

What is the summary of Mark 12:30-31, what are the two greatest commandments?

Answer 23

1. Love the lord your God with all your heart, soul and mind
2. Love your neighbor as yourself

Question 24

What are the steps of the scientific method/ process?

Answer 24

1. Forms a scientific question
2. Conduct research
3. State a hypothesis
4. Perform a controlled experiment
5. collect data
6. Analyze data
7. Draw conclusions
8. Publish or share results

Question 25

What is the difference between a christian scientist and secular?

Answer 25

Not what we look at but how we look at things

Question 26

What is quantitative data?

Answer 26

Numbers-based, countable, or measurable

Question 27

What is quantitative data?

Answer 27

interpretation- based, descriptive, and relating to language