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| what was did god tell us to do to the earth in GENESIS 1:28? |
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| subdue the earth to the glory of god and for the good of humanity.... |
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| the idea that living things can arive from nonliving things |
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| what loosened the grip of supersition and made possible a new era of progress in science? |
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| the protestant reformation |
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| an English physician and a great physiologist, was known for his classic works on the circulation of blood throughout the body |
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| the first person to devote his whole life to studies with the microscope |
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| maintained that all living things are composed of living units called cells and of cell products and that all cells comes from preexisting cells |
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| the scriptures not only provide us with the true account of the origins of all things, but also what by which to view lif and the world. |
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| Furnish us with an interprative framework |
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| tentative solutions to a scientific problem |
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| experiments in which all factors are identical to the one being tested |
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| a hypothesis that has passed the test of time successfully |
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| theory, and afterwards a law |
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| disproved spontanious generation |
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| living things can only come from other living things |
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| the idea that the universe consist of nothing but matter and energy |
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| new creatures comes from different creatures |
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THE PRESENT IS THE ONLY KEY TO THE PAST!!!!
GEEZ THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN ADVERTIZEMNT |
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| WHEN WAS THE Origin written? |
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| the idea that the fittest and strongest of each species is more likely to survive and reproduce than the weaker, poorly adapted animals |
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| natural selection is obseved in nature as a _______? |
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process by which new kinds of creatutes emerge from existing kinds over time
"evolution" |
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| natural selection acts to preserve existing kinds, not create new ones |
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| that natural selection would act upon the variety that naturally occirs within kinds to gradually produce new kinds of organisms. |
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| according to macroevolution |
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| amphibians come from fish, reptiles come from amphibians, and so on..... this has never happened in nature |
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| remains or impressions of plant, animals, and humans preserved in sedimaentary rock |
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| are missing links- fossils that connect one kind of organsim with aniother kind by a series of tiny steps. |
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| the fact that transitional forms have not been found is perhaps the greatest evidence .against..._____? |
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| punctuated equilibrium hypothesis |
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| gould and eldredge suggested that evolution occurs in sudden spurts, followed by long periods withou noticeable change. |
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| simple-to-complex sequence of fossils (geologic chart) |
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| an argument that is based on the very assumption it attempts to prove. |
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| one of the serious contradictions between the facts of the fossil record and the hypothesis of evolution is known as ? |
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| if what evolutionists believe is true, there should be gradual progression of extremely simple cells to a more advanced creature with gradual increase in variety and diversity |
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| argument against cambrain exposion |
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| the fossil record contains no such progression.... simple to advanced |
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| show a sudden burst of complex organisms f great variety, with no evidence f ancestors in the practically empty precambrian rocks |
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| "-dawn horse"-some evolutionists speculated that hyracotherium ws the ancestor of the horse so they renamed the fossil what? |
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| darwins second book addresses the origin of mankind |
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| the most important difference between man and ape |
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| man is created in God's image (gen1:27) |
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| some scientists who had spent much time studying Eoanthropus we devasted in 1953 |
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| when it was revealed tha "piltdown man" was a Hoax |
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| "southern ape" the first links in the chain of supposed human descent |
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| evolutionists now admit that Neanderthals were ..... |
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| the last linK in the supposed evolution of man: discovered in the southwestFrance |
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| eveidence against evolution |
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| Amphibian egg to reptile egg |
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| another example of Impossibility of Transitional forms |
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| random errors in an organism's genetic code |
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| commonly cited example of natural selection in action |
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| hyposthesis states that an unborn baby, while developing in its mother's womb, goes through various stages of development that resemble different animals, providing a "replay" of man's evolution from simple invertebrate to his present form |
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| the study of how living things interactwith each other and with their physical environment |
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| an organisms environment or home |
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| living things are called______ of the habitat. |
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| non-living things of the habitat |
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| the relatively thin layer of the earth's surface in which life exists |
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| large geographic regions with its own cahracteristic vegetation and animal life |
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| you would find many individual lake, marshes, forests, grasslands, and other smaller natural areas, each with its own specific environmental conditions |
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| the basic unit of ecology; and interrelated network of all organisms and their environment within a limited area |
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| all of the living things in an ecosystem |
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| a group of organisms of the same species living in the same ecosystem |
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| organisms with make their own food using and inorganic (non-living) energy source |
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| all other organisms in an ecosystem beside the producers: "heterotrophs" |
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| consumers that feed on plants. |
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| consumers that feed on other animals |
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| consumers that feed on both plants and animals |
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| feed on detritus. but cannot convert the detritus into a soil component as decomposers do. rather they break it up into smaller pieces and speed up the decay process |
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| a classification which describes its feeding relationship to other organisms in its ecosystem |
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| model used by ecologist to show the nutritional relationship among organisms in an ecosystem |
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| model used by ecologists to show all possible feeding relationships to each trophic level |
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| the function or occupation of a living thing |
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| show the energy transferred from one trophic level to the next. |
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| represents the total mass of living mater per unit area, or biomass, at each trophic level in an ecosystem |
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| mass of living matter peer unit area |
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| represents the number of organisms at each trophic level and shows that population size usually decreases at each higher trophic level |
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| a close relationship between 2 different species over a period of time |
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| releationship in which both organisms benefit |
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| relationship between 2 organisms in which one, called the parasite, benefits while the other, called the host, is harmed |
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| relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither harmed or helped |
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| nutrient cycles ( to recycle minerals and other nutrients in the environment) |
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| water moves from the soil and from the water surfaces of the earth through the atmosphere, and then back to the earth again. |
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| 3 major processes that continuously cycle water between the earth and atmosphere |
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| evaporation, condensation, and precipitation |
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| include the carbon-oxygen cycle and the nitrogen cycle |
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| one of the main sedimentary cycles |
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| the combination of a region's climax vegetation and its animal population |
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| extends northermost parts of North America, europe and asia. It has long harsh winters, with freezing temperatures, snow, ice, and high winds. |
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| a permanently frozen layer of soil found 2 to 3 feet below te surface, does not allow roots and water to penetrate deeply into the soil |
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| high mountain altitudes, which has vegetation and climatic conditions similar to those of the Artic tundra, although the soik has better drainage and has no permafrost |
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| northern coniferous forest |
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extends thoughout much of Canada and the Northern United State sand through the norther parts of europe and russia.
climate is harsh, with long winters and heavy snowfalls.however trees prosper in thsi biome b/c summer is long & permafrost is rare. |
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| Northern Coniferous forest |
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| conifers, especially white and black spruce are the dominant vegetation in this biome |
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| larger than terrestrial biomes and sow great variations in temperature, dissolved nutrients, gases, and sunlight penetrations. |
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| the 2 major divisions of aquatic biomes |
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| Marine ecosystems and freshwater ecosystems |
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| occurs where nutrient-rich freshwater from rivers and streams meets and mixes with sea water |
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| formed from the remains of stony corals and coralline algae |
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| the replacement of early pioneer species by later species in an orderly progression until the climax community is established |
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