Scientific Method
This step in the scientific method involves the act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
What is observation?
Numerical information obtained through measurements falls under what category of data
What is quantitative data?
The hereditary material that carries genetic information is known by what acronym?
What is DNA?
The process by which populations of organisms change over time is known as what?
What is evolution?
Study of all living things, like plants and animals, and even single-cell organisms
This is a logical interpretation based on what scientists already know.
What is inference?
Data that is descriptive and non-numerical in nature is known by what term?
What is qualitative data?
The process by which living organisms produce offspring by combining genetic material. Two parents, one offspring
What is sexual reproduction?
What term is used to describe a specific change in an organism's surroundings that triggers a response
What is stimulus?
Deals with earth and space - things like planets, stars, and rocks. Studies non-living things and their history
What is Earth Science?
This is a tentative scientific explanation that can be tested by further observation or by experimentation. (an educated guess)
What is hypothesis?
Is exposed to the same conditions as the experimental group except for changes in the independent variable.
What is control group?
The combination of chemical reactions as it carries out its life processes is called
What is metabolism?
All living things grow during at least part of their lives.
What is growth and development?
Matter and energy, most basic building blocks of the universe.
What is Physical Science?
The factor that is deliberately manipulated in an experiment is known as what?
What is an independent variable?
The variable that is observed and that changes in response to the independent variable is called the
What is dependent variable?
The new organism has a single parent.
What is asexual reproduction?
The group in an experiment that is exposed to the independent variable is known as what?
What is the experimental group?
In this type of scientific study, all variables are kept constant except for one, which is purposely changed.
What is a controlled experiment?
Most organisms must keep internal conditions, such as temperature and water content, fairly constant to survive. The relatively constant set of conditions
What is homeostasis?
After infecting living things, they can reproduce, regulate gene expression, and evolve. Need a host to survive.
What is a virus?