Scientific Enterprise
This is an informed prediction or guess of what could happen in an untested circumstance
Hypothesis
What distinguishes life from non-life?
Purpose
Atoms join together to make these (ex. water & carbon dioxide)
Molecules
True or false: The origin of life is still being studied today.
True
True or False: Scientific facts can change
TRUE
Theory
What characteristic is when living things use materials from the environment and excrete waste?
Metabolize
Group of species living together in the same region (ex. school of fish & pack of wolves)
Population
What is it called when life emerges randomly from non-living matter on a regular basis?
Spontaneous Generation
What are the two ways that we know something is true?
Direct experience or revelation from God
Conducting this provides evidence that either supports or does not support your hypothesis
Experiment
What causes a signal to be transmitted in the form of light, sound, pressure, temperature, or a chemical gradient?
Stimulus (respond)
Levels of organization are organized from _____ to _______
Smallest to largest
What is the term associated with the concept that life must proceed from life?
Biogenesis
In microscopes, you can adjust two aspects to see something more clearly. What are they?
Magnification & Resolution
True or False: Theories are considered true because they are based on facts. They are truth claims.
FALSE!
If organisms do not ____ to their environment, they could become extinct
Adapt
What level of organization includes a nucleus, mitochondria, and ribosomes
Organelle
What scientist disproved Spontaneous Generation & created the Swan Neck Flask?
Louis Pasteur
Give 3 examples of types of observations
Size & dimension, color, texture, shape & structure, distinctive characteristics, odor, and states of matter
What are the 5 steps in the Scientific Enterprise?
Facts, Theory, Hypothesis, Experiment, & Analysis
List the 6 characteristics of life
Made of cells/organization, metabolize, grow/reproduce, transmit genetic info, respond, adapt
A community of living things that interact with nonliving components (ex. freshwater pond)
Ecosystem
In Redi's experiment with meat jars, explain what happened with the three different jars? (Open, Sealed, Cloth)
Open-Flies and maggots on meat, Sealed-No flies or maggots in the jar, Cloth-Flies and maggots on top of cloth
Hypotheses are: ____ ____ (based on a particular scientific theory) and _____ & _____ (based on observations and experiments)
2. Tested and supported