Chapter 1 vocab

The study of how the natural world works, using experiments and evidence.

• Creation Mandate

• Worldview

• Science

• Earth Science

Directive from God that humans were created to take care of and manage the Earth.

• Creation Mandate

• Worldview

• Hypothesis

• Law

A well-tested idea that explains many observations and can predict future ones.

• Hypothesis

• Theory

• Model

• Data

The way a person sees and understands the world around them.

• Worldview

• Law

• Data

• Measured Data

Information collected through observations, used as evidence.

• Hypothesis

• Data

• Theory

• Model

A simple version of something complicated, used to explain how it works.

• Model

• Hypothesis

• Law

• Theory

A guess made based on what you know, which you can test with an experiment.

• Theory

• Hypothesis

• Data

• Law

The numbers and facts you get from doing an experiment.

• Measured Data

• Descriptive Data

• Historical Science

• Operational Science

Data that includes numbers and measurements, like height or temperature.

• Descriptive Data

• Measured Data

• Historical Science

• Operational Science

The idea that natural laws work the same way now as they did in the past.

• Principle of Uniformity

• Principle of Cause and Effect

• Scientific Process

• Worldview