Key Terms
Characteristics of Life
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Scientific Method
Nature of Science
100
The study of life.
What is Biology?
100
The white hair of a polar bear.
What is an example of an adaptation?
100
The most appropriate SI unit used for measuring the growth of trees over time.
What is a meter?
100

You can record an observation; an inference is an idea.

What is the difference between an observation and an inference?

100
An explanation of a natural event that is supported by a large body of observations and investigations.
What is a theory?
200
Anything that has or once had the characteristics of life.
What is an organism?
200
A rat scurries past, and a python strikes at it.
What is an example of a stimulus and response?
200
Allows others in the field to assess a scientist's investigations and results.
What is peer review?
200

You record the air temperature every day for a week.

What is an example of an observation?

200
Combining a basic understanding of science and its processes with reasoning and thinking skills.
What is science literacy?
300
A testable explanation.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Producing sweat to reduce body temperature.
What is an example of maintaining homeostasis?
300
Bacteria found in hot springs.
What is an example of a major focus of a biologist?
300
Observe, question, make a testable explanation, experiment, collect and analyze data, state findings.
What are the sequence of steps of the scientific method?
300
A set of moral principles or values.
What is ethics?
400

The regulation of an organism's internal conditions to maintain life

What is homeostasis?

400
This must occur in order for traits to get passed along to future generations.
What is reproduction?
400
Its applications include the development of pacemakers and artificial limbs.
What is a major benefit of technology?
400
To obtain consistent data
What is repeating the same investigation several times?
400
Describes relationships under certain conditions in nature.
What is a scientific law?
500

A collection of beliefs or practices that are mistakenly regarded as being based on scientific method, but with no scientific proof.

What is pseudoscience?

500
Begins with atoms and molecules and increases in complexity
What is organization?
500
It allows us to be educated in issues important in today's world.
What is the importance of understanding science?
500

The seeds exposed to the normal magnetic field of Earth in an experiment testing the effect of magnetic fields on germination in a plant.

What is the control group.

500
The driving force that moves science forward.
What is the search for new knowledge?
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