Earth Systems
Another name for an individual animal in an ecosystem
What is an organism?
A system in the human body that helps with processing food for energy
What is the digestive system
The number of cells required for life
What is one or more?
A set of interacting parts with a specific purpose or function
What is a system?
The educated guess step of the scientific method
What is a Hypothesis?
The name for the sphere of Earth that contains all living things
What is the biosphere?
Two or more organs working together
What is an organ system?
The requirement of life fulfilled by food in humans and photosynthesis in plants
What is requires energy?
The part of CER that deals with proving you claim
What is evidence?
Information that we take in with our senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch)
What are observations?
The name for a collection of multiple living species in a given area
What is a community?
The smallest unit of life
What are cells?
Our nervous system gives us this requirement of life
What is responding to changes in the environment?
What is an open system?
A variable that we manipulate in scientific research
What is an independent variable?
Rocks, temperature, and sunlight
What are abiotic factors?
The type of tissue that receives and transmits impulses and processes information
What is nervous tissue?
The requirement for life that a robot does not meet due to its inability to age
What is growth and change over time?
The physical limit of a system
What is a boundary?
Information from one step of a cycle that acts to change the behavior of a previous step of a cycle.
What is feedback?
The two spheres of earth that interact when a glacier carves into a mountain
What is the hydrosphere and the geosphere?
The process by which cells specialize in different functions and structures
What is cell differentiation?
The requirement for life that maintains constant internal conditions in our bodies.
What is homeostasis?
A property that the parts of a system do not possess that is expressed in the whole system
What is an emergent property?
An unavoidable part of scientific research that occurs in the interpretation of the study or design of the study that causes errors.
What is bias?