Practice of geology means any service or creative work if the adequate performance of the service or work requires geologic education, training, and experience to include such services or creative work as geological consultation, investigation, planning, surveying, mapping, and inspection of geological work, and the responsible supervision thereof, the performance of which is related to public welfare or the safeguarding of life, health, property, and the environment, and teaching, including research and service, of advanced geological subjects. A person shall be construed to practice or offer to practice geology if he or she: (1) Practices any branch of the profession of geology; (2) by verbal claim, sign, advertisement, letterhead, or card or in any other way, represents himself or herself to be a professional geologist; (3) through the use of some other title, implies that he or she is licensed under the Geologists Regulation Act; or (4) holds himself or herself out as able to perform or does perform any geologic service or work recognized by the board as the practice of geology.