Characteristics of Life
Vocabulary
Things to Know
Necessities of Life
..more Characteristics
100
It is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
100
Maintaining stable internal conditions
What is homeostasis?
100
Personal point of view
What is a bias
100
Considered natural phenomenon
What is a LAW
100
A butterfly emerging from a cocoon is an example of
What is growth and development
200
Humans eat food to get this characteristic of life
What is energy?
200
The passing of traits from parents to offspring
What is heredity?
200
The variable that is deliberately changed in an experiment
What is the independent variable
200
A well tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations
What is a theory
200
Observing the behavior of apes in a forest is an example of this type of data collecting
What is qualitative
300
This characteristic of life ensures the survival of a species
What is (sexual and asexual) reproduction
300
A group of cells with the same function make up
What is a tissue?
300
A possible explanation for a set of observations
What is a hypothesis
300
How do we define species
What is the ability to reproduce viable (fertile) offspring
300
Which three characteristics of life are represented by a corn plant producing ears of corn
Which are reproduction, growth, and development
400
When a plant grows toward the light
What is response to stimulus?
400
An organ consists of
What is two or more tissues?
400
For a hypothesis to be valid it must be
What is testable (You must be able to perform the experiment)
400
In a controlled experiment, how many variables are tested at a time?
What is one
400
This ensures that scientific work is free of bias and meets the standards set by the scientific community
What is a peer review BONUS 100 Points - **Who does this?
500
Characteristic that controls heredity
What is DNA?
500
Any structure or behavior that enables an organism to survive in its environment
What is an adaptation
500
Slow change in a species over time
What is evolution
500
The responding variable in an experiment is
What is the dependent variable
500
One meter is equal to how many millimeters?
What is 1000
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