Like a Scientist
Study of Life
Scientific Inquiry
Vocabulary
Safety in the Lab
100
Using one or more of your senses to gather information.
What is observing.
100
Processes that enable an organism to survive.
What are functions.
100
A question or problem answered by making observations and collecting evidence.
What is posing the question?
100
A way of gaining knowledge of the world around us by exploring.
What is science?
100
If a beaker breaks, the first thing you should do.
What is notify your teacher?
200
Explaining or interpreting the things you observe based on reasoning.
What is inferring.
200
Organism have structures and functions.
What is complementary.
200
In a scientific experiment, the one variable that is purposely changed to test a hypothesis.
What is manipulated variable.
200
Learning or gaining knowledge about life.
What is biology?
200
When you do field work, you should always.
What is tell an adult where you will be?
300
Observations that deal with descriptions that cannot be expressed in numbers.
What is qualitative observations.
300
How and organism is put together.
What is structure?
300
A summary of what you learned that connects data to the hypothesis.
What is the conclusion?
300
An experiment in which only one variable is changed at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
300
Something to alert you to possible dangers and identify safety equipment you should use.
What are safety symbols?
400
Observations that deal with a number or amount.
What is quantitative observations.
400
The process of change that occurs during an organism’s life to produce a more complex organism.
What is development?
400
Answer to the problem or question.
What is developing a hypothesis?
400
The part of an experiment that is not tested or not changed.
What is a control.
400
What you do after finishing your lab.
What is clean up your work area?
500
Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past experience or evidence.
What is predicting.
500
Any living thing.
What is an organism?
500
In a scientific experiment, the factor that changes in response to the manipulated variable.
What is responding variable.
500
A statement that explains what you want to happen that describes how to measure the change.
What is an operational definition?
500
Some reasonable safety precautions for field investigations.
What are be prepared and use common sense?
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