Scientific Method
An educated guess about what you believe will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
Some animals travel south for the winter. What is this called?
What is migration?
The man who did an experiment with pea plants
Who is Gregor Mendel?
Traits that are passed down from parents to offspring
what is inherited
When light travels through glass and changes direction.
What is refraction?
The variable that responds to change you made in the experiment.
What is dependent variable?
This becomes thicker on rabbits in the winter to protect it from the cold weather.
What is fur?
The qualities an organism has.
What is characteristics?
when light bounces back from a surface
What is reflected?
An observation that is made by using the senses.
What is a qualitative observation?
A physical feature or behavior that helps an organism.
What is an adaptation?
when material allows light to pass through.
What is transparent?
The part of the experiment that changes.
What is an independent variable?
Something that causes a reaction in a living thing
What is a stimulus?
the distance between a point on one wave
What is wavelength?
What is a controlled variable?
To receive characteristics from an organism's parent.
What is inherit?
the height of a wave measured from its midline
What is amplitude?