STEM
It is the AXIS on a graph that shows the variable you measured or counted in your experiment.
What is the Y axis?
The cells that carry oxygen and pick up carbon dioxide.
What are red blood cells?
It's the THREE states of matter!
What are solid, liquid and gas?
It forms when fallen snow compresses into large, thickened ice masses over a long period of time. (They are now melting.)
What are glaciers?
It is the acronym for the word, deoxyribonucleic acid.
What is DNA?
The variable that remains the same in an experiment. It does not show up on the graph, but can make a big difference in your results if you are not careful.
What is control variable?
The part of the microscope that we look through.
What is the eyepiece?
It's the name of the wacky, fast-talking scientist on You-tube whose videos we occasionally watched.
Who is Bill Nye?
It’s the words that CER stands for.
What is Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
It is a characteristic of an organism that can be inherited or acquired.
What is a trait?
All the things that limit your design, including time, money, and materials.
What are constraints?
The name of the body system that allows us to breathe.
What is the respiratory system?
It is light energy when it moves THROUGH and object.
What is transmit?
Oddly enough, it is the smallest of the water reservoirs!
What is the atmosphere?
It’s the gene that shows up in the offspring.
What is dominant or phenotype?
The requirements of the design. The checklist of stuff that your design needs to have or do to be successful.
What are criteria?
This contains weakened or dead parts of antigens, making it easier for the immune system to win quickly.
What is a vaccine?
It is how heat energy is transferred from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere.
What is conduction?
The name of the organization that Mr. Pitts works for and that is in charge of our Parks, public transportation, and garbage.
What is Metro?
It is the gene that is hidden but can be passed on to the offspring
What is recessive?
The changing variable. The variable that is changed on purpose and is written on the X axis of the graph.
What is independent variable?
Groups of cells that are similar in structure and function.
What is tissue?
It is the name of the circular process of rising and falling molecules on the surface of the Earth, creating wind.
What is convection?
The name of the effect on the earth when humans release carbon dioxide, methane, and other fossil fuels into the atmosphere that cause global warming.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
The is the process of cells dividing and making new cells.
What is mitosis?