Scientific Inquiry and Experiments
An educated guess that attempts to explain an observation or answer a question
What is an hypothesis?
A push or pull on an object in an effort to change that object's velocity
What is force?
Archeology studies past human life through artifacts, where this science discipline studies life history through the fossil record
What is paleontology?
The view that the earth's geological features result from large scale upheaval such as floods, volcanoes, etc.
What is catastrophism?
This provides are the necessary information to turn lifeless chemicals into a living organism-Extra points for knowing the full name
What is deoxyribonucleic acid?
What is a counter example?
The length of a straight line that travels from one side of a circle, through the center, to the other side of the circle.
What is the diameter?
The study of earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the earth
What is geology?
The view that most of the earth's geological features are the result of slow, gradual processes over millions of years
What is uniformitarianism?
What is photosynthesis?
An aspect of an experiment that changes during the course of the experiment
What is an experimental variable?
The amount by which force or motion is magnified in a simple machine
What is the mechanical advantage?
The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree
What is dendrochronology?
The three basic types of rock-extra 100 points if you can name how they are formed
What are igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary?
The 4 basic parts of a cell
What are the nucleus, organelles, cell membrane, and cytoplasm?
Experiments in which neither the participants nor the people analyzing the results know who is in the control group
What are double-blind experiments?
The numbers of pulleys used to create a mechanical advantage of 4
What is 4?
The principle stating when artifacts are found in LAYERED rock or earth, the deeper layers hold the older artifacts
What is the Principle of Superposition?
The 2 types of weathering-extra 100 points explaining he difference
What is physical weathering (process of rock breakdown which doesn't change chemical composition) and what is chemical weathering ( the process of rock breakdown which creates new chemical not the same as the original rock)
The prokaryotic cell has no distinct membrane-bounded organelles while this cell DOES have membrane-bounded organelles
What is a eukaryotic cell?
These are the 6 steps in the scientific method
What are observation, hypothesis, experimentation to confirm hypothesis, hypothesis becomes theory, more experimentation over time, theory becomes a law?
The 6 simple machines
What are the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge, and screw?
The external test of a document makes sure it does not contradict other sources, the internal test checks for self-contradiction, while this test makes certain the document is essentially the same as the original
What is the bibliographic test?
The 2 formations resulting from groundwater seeping through the ceiling of a cavern
What are stalactites and stalagmites?
The 5 kingdoms in life classification
What are Monera, Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia?