Vocabulary
Characteristics of Living Organisms
NH COPS
Scientific Method
Chemistry of Life
100
The study of life.
What is Biology
100
All things are made from one or more of these.
What is cells?
100
The N stands for this.
What is Nitrogen?
100
an explanation that might be true.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The smallest unit of matter that cannot be broken down by chemical means.
What is an atom?
200
The smallest unit capable of all life functions.
What is a cell?
200
The passing of traits from parent to offspring.
What is heredity?
200
this is the S in NH COPS.
What is Sulpher?
200
Perceiving objects or events using the senses.
What is observation?
200
A substance made of joined atoms of two or more different elements.
What is a compound?
300
The complete genetic material contained in an individual.
What is a genome?
300
The process by which organisms make more of their own kind from one generation to the next.
What is reproduction?
300
The O stands for this.
What is Oxygen?
300
The information collected in an experiment.
What is data?
300
When two or more atoms share electrons they form this.
What is molecule?
400
This is the branch of biology that studies the interactions between organisms.
What is ecology?
400
The maintenance of stable internal conditions in spite of the changes in the external environment.
What is homeostasis?
400
This element is found in all living things.
What is Carbon?
400
A group in an experiment that receives no experimental treatment.
What is the control group?
400
An atom or molecule that has gained or lost one or more electrons.
What is Ion?
500
The factor that is changed in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
500
The sum of all the chemical reactions carried out in an organism?
What is metabolism?
500
What does the P stand for?
What is Phosphorus?
500
The variable that is measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
500
These are the three types of bonds.
What is Covalent, Hydrogen and Ionic?
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