Lesson 1.1
An organized way of gathering and analyzing evidence about the natural world.
What is science?
a factor in a controlled experiment that is changed on purpose.
What is an independent variable?
Curiosity, Creativity and Skepticism.
What are three scientific attitudes?
Our genetic makeup that we get from our parents.
What is DNA?
Signal to which an organism responds.
What does stimulus mean?
The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way, using our 5 senses.
What is an observation?
A variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
A preference point or view that is personal.
What is a bias?
A type of reproduction which cells from two parents unite to form a new organism.
What is sexual reproduction?
To look over or help a peer go over their work to correct or see if there are any mistakes.
What is the purpose of peer review?
A logical interpretation based on what scientists already know.
What is an inference?
group in an experiment that stays the same besides for one independent variable.
What is a control group?
A flaw that a scientist can have is, being bias when conducting their experiment.
What is something a scientist should never be?
Constant internal physical and chemical conditions that organisms have.
What is homeostasis?
Why are scientific theories not always truthful?
Why are scientific theories not always truthful?
A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it. An educated guess.
What is a hypothesis?
Evidence or information gathered from observations.
What is data?
A well tested explanation of different hypotheses and observations from other scientists about new situations.
What is a theory?
The study of life.
What is biology?
Unlike sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction involves..
What is one parent?
An experiment when only one variable is changed.
What is a controlled experiment?
Ask a question.
Make a Hypothesis.
Carry out your experiment.
Analyze your data.
Draw a conclusion.
Communicate your results.
What are the steps of the scientific method?
A chemical reaction when an organism builds up or breaks down materials.
What is a metabolism?
Where cells from one parent form a new organism.
What is asexual reproduction?
Why are scientific theories useful?
Why are scientific theories useful?