Characteristics of Life
Scientific Method
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Living, Non-living, Dead
100
When two animals from the same species breed and create offspring.
What is reproduction?
100
Sceintists commonly use these steps in gathering information to test hypotheses and solve problem.
What is the scientific method?
100
Orderly structure of cells in an organism.
What is organization?
100
A conditon in an environment that requires an organism to adjust.
What is a stimulus?
100
Water
What is non-living?
200
An example is when an owl's pupils dilate due to less light at night.
What is a response to a stimulus?
200
A testable explanation for a question or problem.
What is a hypothesis?
200
Group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring in nature.
What are species?
200
An increase in the amount of living material and formation of new structures in an organism.
What is growth?
200
Wood
What is dead?
300
All living things are made up of this smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
300
The part of an experiment in which all conditions are kept the same.
What is the control?
300
All of the changes that take plce during the life of an organism.
What is development?
300
Anything that possesses all the characteristics of life.
What is an organism?
300
Leather Wallet
What is non-living?
400
An organisms regulation of its internal environment to maintain conditions suitable for survival.
What is homeostasis?
400
In an experiment, the condition that is changed because it effects the oucome of the experiment.
What is the independent variable?
400
An organism's reaction to a change in its internal environment or external environment.
What is a response?
400
Information obtained from experiments, sometimes called experimental results.
What is data?
400
Carrot stick
What is dead?
500
The study of life.
What is biology?
500
In an experiment, the condition that results from changes in the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
500
Procedure that tests a hypothesis by collecting information under controlled conditons.
What is an experiment?
500
Plants perform this process in order to grow and develop.
What is photosynthesis?
500
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What is living?
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