Key Terms
A body of knowledge known for the sake of wisdom
What is a science?
Are you being careful? Going slow and really looking to see what is befre you? Are you only reporting what you directly sense?
Water-transporting tissues in vascular plants
What is xylem?
To judge a thing to be in a group, based on the observed properties the thing displays.
What is to classify?
The vascular plant used to decorate poets and triumphal conquerors.
What is laurel?
It has two traits: (1) an observable stable property and (2) the ability to undergo change.
What is a physical thing?
Are your obsrvations exact?
What is be precise?
Any of at least 12,000 species of small nonvascular spore-bearing land plants, commonly found in moist shady areas. Rootless, but have small hairlike structures called rhizoids that allow them to latch onto rock, bark, or soil.
What is moss?
What a thing is made out of; the stuff from which it is built.
What is matter?
The tallest species of trees in the world
What are Coastal Redwoods?
What the thing, or its parts, are for; that is, what it does and why it does them
What is function?
Do your observations focus on these core aspects of things?
What is focus on structure, function, matter, and relation?
The tissue responsible for moving food down from the leaves to other parts of the plant.
What is phloem?
The study of shape or form.
What is morphology?
The ability of an animal to take in information about the outside world by receiving impressions of things, kind of like wax receives the impression of a ring.
What is sensation?
The development of an organism to maturity (which typically includes reproduction) through the assimilation of nutrients into the organism
What is growth?
Are your descriptions as lively as the things you observe?
What is Use Vivid Language?
A cultivated plant known for its pinnate to bipinnate rhombic leaflets and fibrous stalk separating into "strings" of angular cells exterior to its vascular bundles. Used by the ancient Egyptians for funeral garlands.
What is celery?
Adapted to a particulate set of surroundings and are responsive to changes in those surroundings
What is environmental integrated?
The process of information gathering that focuses on mere observation and usually takes place in whatever environment the object of study exists naturally.
What is field study?
Made up of one or more of the "building blocks of life."
What is cellular?
On labs, are your observations hypothesis focused?
What is be hypothesis focused?
A non-flowering vascular plant that reproduces by spores and is often found on forest floors. Can have large, undivided leaves called fronds. The science of these plants is known as pteridology.
What are ferns?
The full, complex, shape of a thing; how the thing is put together; the ordering principle that makes a thing to be the kind of thing it is.
What is structure?
A student of Aristotle and the first great ancient botanist.
Who is Theophrastus?