Scientific Method
Data obtained from an experiment
What are results?
Change in DNA (mutations) over time, over generations.
What is evolution?
The smallest part of an element
What is the atom?
Cinderella is wondering if the temperature affects how fast her carriage is. Which is the independent variable?
Temperature
The theory that stated that non-living matter can originate life itself.
What is Spontaneus Generation?
Variables that must stay the same
Which are the controlled variables?
Ability of living being to move forward or away a stimulus.
What is irritability (response to stimuli)?
The smallest unit of life.
What is the cell?
Elsa is testing how the time of years affects how powerful her powers are. Which is the dependent variables?
How powerful her powers are.
Theory of cosmic origin: spores and organic compounds traveling to space in meteorites.
What is panspermia?
The cause of a natural phenomenon
What is the independent variable?
Characteristic of living beings that allows them to keep the internal environment constant or in balance.
What is homeostasis?
A community together with the non-living matter of the region.
What is an ecosystem?
Spongebob wonders if the amount of oil under the sea affects his pineapple's shape. Which is the independent variable?
The amount of oil.
Scientists who coined the physio-chemical/biogenesis/chemical evolution theory.
Who are Oparin and Haldane?
A prediction of how one variable (dependent) can be affected by another variable (independent).
What is the hypothesis?
Series of stages an organism goes through to become an adult.
What is development?
Organisms of the same species living together in an area.
What is a population?
I want to see if the mentos flavor I put inside the coke affects the amount of bubbles created. Which is the dependent variable?
The amount of bubbles created.
Scientists who used an experiment to prove the physio-chemical/biogenesis/chemical evolution theory.
Who are Miller and Urey?
Variable that is measured to obtain the results of an experiment. The effect of a natural phenomenon.
What is the dependent variable?
Ability to acquire materials and energy.
What is metabolism?
Organisms of different species living together in an area.
What is the community?
I want to see if the mentos flavor I put inside the coke affects the amount of bubbles created. Which could be considered a constant variable?
Type of soda; number of mentos added; temperature of soda; temperature of mentos; amount of soda; weather (ambient temperature); etc.
The primitive earth's atmosphere gases.
What are hydrogen, nitrogen, CO2, CO, sulfur and water vapor?