Earth Science Chapter 1 vocabulary

Gods command in Genesis 1:28 to manage the earth wisely and to use it for His glory and man's benefit

• historical science

• data

• measured data

• creation mandate

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-1

NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

The overall perspective that is based on pre-suppositions that a person uses to view and interpret the world

• worldview

• data

• operational science

• historical science

A basic assumption about the world that a person assumes is true.

• presupposition

• science

• creation mandate

• data

A simple, useful, workable representation of something in the world

• model

• law

• theory

• science

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NGSS.MS-ETS1-4

An initial explanation for a scientific problem. It is the starting point for testing the validity of an explanation

• hypothesis

• publish

• experiment

• data

A model that attempts to explain a set of observations.

• theory

• principle of cause and effect

• principle of uniformity

• creation mandate

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A description of the relationship between two or more variables that is based on repeated observations. A law describes something that happens without any explanation as to why it happens.

• law

• principle of uniformity

• presupposition

• worldview

Any information scientists collect by observing nature

• data

• descriptive data

• measured data

• science

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NGSS.3-LS3-1

NGSS.4-ESS2-1

Data that usually consists of numbers with units.

• measured data

• descriptive data

• data

• science

Data describing an observation using words.

• descriptive data

• measured data

• data

• law