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PS Chapter 1:God

PS Chapter 1: Modeling God's World Coach Leach

TermDefinition
Creation Mandate God's command that directs us to exercise wise and good dominion over His creation to the glory of God and for the benefit of fellow humans.
science The systematic study of the universe that produces observations, inferences, and models, including the products that it creates through this systematic study.
model A workable explanation or description of a phenomenon.
theory A model that explains a related set of phenomena; can be used to predict unobserved aspects of the phenomena.
law A model, often expressed as a mathematical equation, that describes phenomena under certain conditions.
hypothesis An initial, testable explanation of a phenomenon that stimulates and guides scientific investigation.
physical science The study of nonliving matter and energy.
chemistry The study of the composition, structure, and properties of matter, and the changes that take place in matter.
physics The study of matter and energy and the interactions between them.
ethics A system of moral values; a theory of proper conduct.
workability The basis upon which a model is assessed, taking into account how well it explains or describes a set of observations and how well the model makes predictions.
scientific inquiry An ongoing, orderly, cyclical approach used to investigate the world.
measurement Data that is based on numbers or quantities; includes a number and a unit; also know as quantitative data.
SI A standardized system of measurement units used for science; from the French System International d' Unites.
accuracy The comparison of a measurement to an accepted or expected value
precision The degree of exactness of a measurement; can indicate the closeness or repeatability of measurements.
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