Vocabulary
What is a Hypothesis?
An educated guess
What is the Controlled Variable?
A variable that is held constant
What is Natural Selection?
The process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.
What is Satellite Behavior?
Satellite males associate themselves with males that are actively trying to attract females and attempt to intercept and mate with females that approach these males
What is Quantitative Data?
Data that is using specific measurements and numbers
What is an Experimental and Controlled Group?
The Experimental group is the group that receives the variable your testing
The Control group is the group that is not receiving the variable that you are testing.
What is Mutation?
Mutation is the process of changing, such as in nature, form, or quality
What is CER?
Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning.
What is Qualitative Data?
Data that is represented by area types or observations
What is the Placebo Effect?
The placebo effect is where someone believes something worked when it was nothing.
For example a back pain reliever and a sugar pill. If you give the sugar pill to someone and they believed it helped their back then it's the placebo effect.
What is Mating Signals?
The auditory signal used by animals to attract mate
What is an Analysis
Analysis- Detailed examination of the elements or structure of something.
It is when the doctor nor the patient actually knows which pill is the placebo or not.
What is a predator?
An animal that preys on other animals
What is an Independent and Dependent Variable?
Independent Variable: Variable that is being changed
Dependent Variable: Variable being affect by the change
What is Evolution?
The development of something, especially from a simple to a more complex form
What is Parasitisim?
The relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other