Chemistry and Biblical Ethics Review

Vocabulary practice flashcards covering basic chemistry concepts, chemical reactions, thermodynamics, and biblical worldview and ethics applications.

Lipids Solubility

Lipids do not dissolve in water because they are nonpolar.

Biblical Worldview in Chemistry

The understanding that people are made in God's image and that God's love can be demonstrated in service to others through chemistry, such as in the development and use of medicines.

Reaction Energy Diagrams

Diagram 4 has the most activation energy and reactants with the lowest energy content; Diagrams 1 and 3 represent exothermic reactions; Diagram 2 releases the least energy.

Biblical Motivations (Abortion Ethics)

Choosing to carry an unplanned pregnancy full-term, even if it results in hardship, to deepen a woman's faith and demonstrate trust in God's provision.

Biblical Principles (Abortion Ethics)

Scriptural passages such as Jeremiah 1:5 that state God knows us before birth.

Biblical Outcomes (Abortion Ethics)

The principle that the lives of the unborn, as God's image bearers, must be protected.

Chemical Energy

The form of energy required from food by animals because they cannot produce their own energy.

Enzyme

A substance that helps a chemical reaction proceed by lowering the activation energy.

Inhibitor

A substance that decreases the activity of an enzyme by binding to the enzyme's active site.

Polar Molecules

Molecules, such as water, that have regions of asymmetric charge.

Organic Compounds

Carbon-based compounds that include carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleotides.

Seawater Components

A solution where water is the solvent, and minerals and gases are the solutes.

Sodium Chloride Formation

A chemical combination where sodium and chlorine are the reactants, and sodium chloride (table salt) is the product.

Temperature Change

An indicator that a change in the average speed of a substance's particles has occurred.

Entropy

The tendency of energy to spread out.

Molecule

The smallest part of a covalent compound.

Brownian Motion

Motion caused by the collisions between particles.

Chemical Equation

A representation showing both the reactants that enter into a chemical reaction and the products formed by that reaction.

Matter

The physical stuff that makes up the universe.

Base

A substance that produces hydroxide ions in solution.

Atom

The smallest individual part of an element.

Element

A pure substance made of only one kind of atom.

Compound

A pure substance made of two or more chemically combined elements.

Acid

A substance that produces hydrogen ions in solution.