The Scientific Method
Variables
Organelles
Cell Types
Diffusion
100
This is the first step of the scientific method.
What is State the Problem?
100
This the name for a part of the experiment that undergoes change.
What is a variable?
100
This is the "brain" or "control center" of the cell.
What is nucleus?
100
This type of cell has a rigid wall surrounding the outside.
What is a plant cell?
100
Diffusion is the movement from areas of high ______ to low ________.
What is concentration?
200
This is the name for an educated prediction based on research.
What is a hypothesis?
200
This is the variable that a scientist changes in an experiment.
What is an independent variable?
200
This is the storage area for waste and other material in a cell.
What is the vacuole?
200
This type of cell has no organelles or nucleus.
What is prokaryote or bacteria cell?
200
This is the name for diffusion across a cell membrane.
What is osmosis?
300
This is the procedure used to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
300
This the variable that changes as a result of the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable.
300
This the organelle in the cell that packages and ships proteins.
What is the golgi body?
300
This is the organelle in a plant cell that produces food.
What is a chloroplast?
300
A semipermeable _______ surrounds a cell allowing fluids in and out.
What is a membrane?
400
This step involves summarizing the cause and effect based on observations.
What is the conclusion?
400
This a group in the experiment that remains unchanged or has 0 variables.
What is a control?
400
This is the organelle that produces or synthesizes proteins.
What is a ribosome?
400
This eukaryotic cell has no wall, just a membrane covering the outside.
What is an animal cell?
400
This is the term for a cell with balanced fluid levels.
What is isotonic?
500
This is the collection of information and observations during an experiment.
What is data?
500
A scientist adds a special fuel to a car to see if it will go faster. Identify the independent variable.
What is adding the special fuel to the car?
500
This is the transporter of the cell.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum (ER)?
500
This is the organelle which converts energy in both plant and animal cells.
What is the mitochondria?
500
This is the term for a cell with too much fluid.
What is hypotonic?
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