ABEKA BIOLOGY: TEST 7 REVIEW
radiometric dating - Answer-process of assigning "ages" to rocks and fossils based on the breakdown of
certain elements into elements
eugenics - Answer-the "science" founded by some of Darwin's followers of selectively breeding humans
to produce a "master race"
index fossil - Answer-a fossil used by evolutionists to identify the "age" of a rock layer containing it
William Paley - Answer-18th-century British theologian who argued that living things show clear
evidence of design
Charles Darwin - Answer-British naturalist who wrote "The Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man"
"Archaeopteryx" - Answer-fossil bird with unusual feathers that is often incorrectly cited as a rising link
between birds and reptiles
scientism - Answer-idea that science can provide answers for all problems in life
, Georges Cuvier - Answer-French scientist who founded the science of comparative anatomy
the scientific method - Answer-special problem-solving method employed by scientists
controlled experiment - Answer-experiment in which all factors are identical except the one being
tested
is an unusual lobe-finned fish that was erroneously regarded as the ancestor of amphibians - Answer-
Coelacanth
hypothetical fossils that would connect one kind of organism with another kind by a series of tiny steps -
Answer-transitional forms
the idea that living things can come only from other living things - Answer-law of biogenesis
the sudden appearance of living things of great variety in the fossil record, showing no evidence of
evolution - Answer-cambrian explosion
the false hypothesis, proposed by Ernst Haeckel, that states that the development of an unborn child
demonstrates a "replay" of evolution from simple inverebrates to man - Answer-recapitulation
the hypothetical simple-to-complex sequence of fossils based upon circular reasoning - Answer-geologic
column
a theory that has stood the test of time and has been verified by experiment after experiment. -
Answer-(scientific) law
radiometric dating - Answer-process of assigning "ages" to rocks and fossils based on the breakdown of
certain elements into elements
eugenics - Answer-the "science" founded by some of Darwin's followers of selectively breeding humans
to produce a "master race"
index fossil - Answer-a fossil used by evolutionists to identify the "age" of a rock layer containing it
William Paley - Answer-18th-century British theologian who argued that living things show clear
evidence of design
Charles Darwin - Answer-British naturalist who wrote "The Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man"
"Archaeopteryx" - Answer-fossil bird with unusual feathers that is often incorrectly cited as a rising link
between birds and reptiles
scientism - Answer-idea that science can provide answers for all problems in life
, Georges Cuvier - Answer-French scientist who founded the science of comparative anatomy
the scientific method - Answer-special problem-solving method employed by scientists
controlled experiment - Answer-experiment in which all factors are identical except the one being
tested
is an unusual lobe-finned fish that was erroneously regarded as the ancestor of amphibians - Answer-
Coelacanth
hypothetical fossils that would connect one kind of organism with another kind by a series of tiny steps -
Answer-transitional forms
the idea that living things can come only from other living things - Answer-law of biogenesis
the sudden appearance of living things of great variety in the fossil record, showing no evidence of
evolution - Answer-cambrian explosion
the false hypothesis, proposed by Ernst Haeckel, that states that the development of an unborn child
demonstrates a "replay" of evolution from simple inverebrates to man - Answer-recapitulation
the hypothetical simple-to-complex sequence of fossils based upon circular reasoning - Answer-geologic
column
a theory that has stood the test of time and has been verified by experiment after experiment. -
Answer-(scientific) law
