Experiments
Characteristics of Life
Science Terms
Levels of Organization
Miscellanous
100
The changing factor in an experiment. The item being tested.
What is Independent Variable?
100
All living things need to do to keep their species alive.
What is Reproduction?
100
The action or process of observing something or someone carefully through the senses.
What is an observation?
100
Cells
What is the basic unit of all living things?
100
An organism obtaining nutrients from the environment or from another organism.
What is a heterotroph?
200
The part of the experiment used for comparison
What is a Control group.
200
The ability of an organism to pass on traits to offspring.
What is Heredity?
200
Information gathered during an experiment for analysis?
What is Data?
200
A group of cells.
What are Tissues?
200
All chemical processes used to build up or break down material in an organism.
What is metabolism?
300
The experimental data collected in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
300
The genetic information found inside the nucleus of eukaryotic cells and the cytoplasm of prokaryotic cells.
What is DNA?
300
Finches (types of birds) that have descended from a common ancestor and have slowly changed over time is an example of:
What is Evolution?
300
A group of tissues.
What are Organ?
300
List the components of a controlled experiment.
What is an independent variable, a dependent variable and a control group?
400
Educated guess made before conducting an experiment. An idea based on what you observe.
What is Hypothesis?
400
All living things are made up of one or more of these. Hint: Some can be unicellular and some can be multicellular.
What are Cells? or What is Cellular Organization?
400
A conclusion derived from observations.
What is Inference?
400
Two or more organs become this.
What is an Organ System?
400
Another term for the experimental group.
What is the independent variable?
500
An idea or set of ideas that is intended to explain facts or events. Repeating results.
What is a Theory?
500
The ability of an organism or cell to maintain internal equilibrium or maintain normal body temperature.
What is Homeostasis?
500
A plant placed in a window in a room without any other light, after a few days the leaves begin to position themselves toward the window.
What is Responsiveness?
500
What do organ systems develop into?
What is an Organism?
500
Providing conflicting scientific evidence can change these.
What are Theories?
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