Characteristics of Life
Nature of Science
Scientific Method
Vocabulary
Experiements
100
Change in an organism over generations.
What is evolution?
100
A scientist should be _____________, and question things and confirm them by conducting their own experiment.
What is skeptical?
100
The two types of possible observations.
What are qualitative and quantitative observations?
100
This is biology.
What is the study of life?
100
The factor in an experiment that is changed on purpose.
What is an independent variable?
200
A flower that turns towards the sunlight is displaying these two characteristics of life.
What are responding to their environment and obtaining and using materials and energy.
200
This characteristic leaves scientists open to receive new information.
What is open minded?
200
A scientific question examines this.
What is how changing one thing affects another?
200
Information gathered from observations.
What is data?
200
The two things of which an experiment is composed.
What are variables and constants?
300
The two ways in which organisms reproduce.
What are sexually and asexually?
300
The type of data that science is concerned with.
What is quantitative data?
300
A hypothesis should follow this format.
What is "if, then, because..."
300
An interpretation based on evidence and reasoning.
What is an inference?
300
The control in the experiment is the group that is this.
What is "normal?"
400
Living things resemble their parents because they share this.
What is DNA?
400
When Isaac Newton wondered what caused an apple to fall down from the tree, he was working toward this goal of science.
What is investigating the natural world?
400
A good experiment is this.
What is repeatable?
400
The theory that life forms "randomly" from nothing.
What is spontaneous generation?
400
The variable that is measured/observed.
What is the dependent variable?
500
The involuntary shivering of the body in cold temperatures is an effort for your body to reach this.
What is homeostasis?
500
Science is both of these things.
What are a process and a body of knowledge?
500
When designing an experiment, keeping these the same allows for the relationship between two specific variables to be observed.
What is a constant?
500
A signal to which an organism responds.
What is a stimulus?
500
In the following question, "Does your height make a difference in how fast you can run?" a person of average height would be the this.
What is the control (group)?
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