Scientific Method
What is a HYPOTHESIS?
The curved line a measurement is taken from when using a graduated cylinder.
What is the MENISCUS?
The study of living things.
What is BIOLOGY?
The study of animals.
What is ZOOLOGY?
Shivering due to a temperature drop.
What is HOMEOSTASIS?
All the information collected during an experiment.
What is DATA?
The basic unit of length in the metric system.
What is a METER?
The process by which organisms keep their internal conditions relatively stable.
What is HOMEOSTASIS?
Something that happens in an organism's environment that causes them to respond in a certain way.
What is a STIMULUS?
A caterpillar hibernates in a cocoon and emerges as a butterfly.
What is GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT?
The variable that is being changed in an experiment.
What is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
The appropriate tool you would use to measure plant growth in milliliters.
What is a METRIC RULER?
The smallest unit of structure and function in living things.
What is a CELL?
Level of biological organization includes all of the other levels.
What is the BIOSPHERE?
Bacteria split to form 2 new bacteria cells.
What is REPRODUCTION?
Data that includes numbers.
What is QUANTITATIVE DATA?
The amount of matter that makes up an object.
What is MASS?
The type of reproduction which would produce offspring which inherits genetic information from 2 parental units.
What is SEXUAL REPRODUCTION?
Each distinct form of life or type of organism.
What is a SPECIES?
The roots of a plant grow toward the source of groundwater.
What is RESPONSE TO STIMULI?
An experiment that is isolating and testing only one variable.
What is a CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT?
The method used to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object.
What is WATER DISPLACEMENT?
Chemical reactions that occur within the body (ingestion, digestion, etc.)
Cell specialization, or differentiation, in multicellular organisms allows cells to:
What is PERFORM DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS?
We are considered 'hybrids' due to the inherited genetic information we receive from each of our two parents.
What is COMPOSED of DNA?