Characteristics of Life
Scientific Method 1
Scientific Method 2
Miscellaneous
Independent Variable VS Dependent Variable
100
When living things adjust to a stimulus in their environment.
What is a response?
100
The information gathered from an experiment.
What is data?
100
A testable explanation for a question or problem.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Anything in an organism's environment that elicits a response.
What is a stimulus?
100
In an experiment, application of fertilizer VS plant growth. The dependent variable.
What is plant growth?
200
All the changes a living thing undergoes in its lifetime.
What is development/growth?
200
A structured procedure for collecting information to test a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
200
A type of research that involves counts or measurements.
What is quantitative research?
200
The living and non-living factors in an organism's surroundings.
What is the environment?
200
In an experiment, consuming Vitamin C VS instances of getting sick. The dependent variable.
What is the instances of getting sick?
300
The process where an organism produces more of its own kind.
What is reproduction?
300
A scientific explanation of known facts arrived at through repeated testing over time.
What is a theory?
300
During an experiment, a second condition that occurs as a result of the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
300
Any structure, behavior, or internal process that enables an organism to better survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
300
In an experiment, how many paper clips can be picked up VS how many insulated coils are wrapped around a nail. The dependent variable.
What is how many paper clips can be picked up?
400
The study of life.
What is biology?
400
The part of an experiment in which all conditions are kept the same.
What is the control?
400
A type of research done through observations and does not involve counts or measurements.
What is qualitative research/descriptive research?
400
Anything that has all of the characteristics of life.
What is an organism?
400
In an experiment, how well students do on tests VS how much homework they complete before the tests. The independent variable.
What is how much homework they complete before the tests.
500
The gradual change in the characteristics of a species over time.
What is evolution?
500
The steps commonly used by scientists in gathering information to test a hypothesis and solve problems.
What is the scientific method?
500
During an experiment, the one thing that is changed and affects the results of the experiment.
What is the independent variable?
500
An organism's tendency to maintain a stable internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
500
In an experiment, how much caffeine is consumed before 5pm and how soon someone can fall asleep at night. The independent variable.
What is how much caffeine is consumed before 5pm.
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