Section 1: Asking about Life
Section 2: Scientific Methods
Section 3: Scientific Models
Section 4: Tools, Measurement, and Safety
Random Knowledge
100
What is...Life Science
What is... the study of living things?
100
What do scientists call the variable that is changed (or different) in a controlled experiment?
What is the Independent variable or Manipulated variable?!
100
What kind of scientific idea rarely changes because it is a summary of many experiments and observations?
What is a LAW!?
100
What is the most common type of microscope used by life scientists in the classroom?
What is the Compound Light Microscope!?
100
What is the only thing you can put in a bucket to make it lighter?
What is a hole!?
200
Why is asking questions in life science important?
What is...Helps us learn, and leads to understanding?!
200
What are the steps in the Scientific Method?
What are: ask questions & make observations, gather information, form a hypothesis, set up experiment, record and analyze results, draw a conclusion
200
What are the three types of scientific models?
What are: physical model, mathematical model, and conceptual model!?
200
Why is the SI (International System of Measurement) important?
What is...it allows all people to share, compare, and analyze observations and results!?
200
Why did the chicken wear gloves?
What is... to keep her chicken-fingers warm!?
300
What are examples of life scientists at work?
What are...biologists who study plants (botanists), marine life, animals and their behaviors(zoologists)?!
300
What MUST you have in a controlled experiment?
What is have ONLY 1 variable that is manipulated?!
300
How do models benefit people?
What is...help us understand how things work or how things are structured!?
300
What base unit would we use to measure volume?
What is the cubic meter or the liter!?
300
How many biologists does it take to change a light bulb?
What is 4...one to change it and 3 to write the scientific report.
400
What are 3 ways life science is beneficial to living things?
What are...investigate illness and disease and tries to find cures, creates medicine to treat illness and disease, protect environment and wildlife?!
400
Why is it important to be able to analyze results in tables and charts?
What is...so that we can interpret them and learn!?
400
How is a hypothesis used?
What is... to design an experiment!?
400
What base SI unit would we use to measure mass?
What is the gram!?
400
A neutron walks into a restaurant and orders a chocolate shake. He asks the waitress how much it will cost. What does she tell him?
What is... for you, no charge!
500
What are the two things that must always be on your Science Log as part of the expectations?
What is the date (upper right-hand corner) and the heading?!
500
How does scientific knowledge change?
What is...when new information is discovered!?
500
What are limitations of models?
What is...can't be exactly like the real thing!?
500
What are three tools that a life scientist would use to observe organisms?
What are: Scanning Electron Microscope, Transmission electron microscope, Compound Light microscope, CAT scan, and MRI!?
500
2000 mockingbirds is equal to...
What is ...2 kilo-mockingbirds!?
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