| Ice Age | When seen in capital letters, refers to the biblical post-Flood Ice Age. |
| Ice cores | Cores of ice that have been drilled down into a glacier |
| Interglacial | Short period of warming between glacier growth/movement that caused glaciers to melt away |
| Isaac Newton | Discovered that Kepler’s laws could be derived mathematically from certain laws of physics (the laws of gravity and motion) |
| Isochron dating | Involves analyzing four or more samples from the same rock unit |
| Isotopes | Any of several different forms of an element, each having different numbers of neutrons |
| Johannes Kepler | Discovered that the planets in our solar system obey three laws of nature |
| Kind barrier | One kind of creature cannot change into a different kind of plant or animal. |
| Law of biogenesis | Life always comes from life. |
| Laws of nature | Everything in the universe (plant, animal, rock, every particle of matter or light wave) is bound by laws, which it has no choice but to obey. |
| Living fossils | Examples are Coelacanths, Wollemi Pine and Ginkgo tree |
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