Nature of Science
A variable that "depends" on the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
Anything that has mass and occupies space
What is Matter?
What is Grelin?
Structure = ?
What is Function?
The college Mr. Sickler went to study Biology
What is Sacramento State?
A guess about an object or outcome based on your observations
What is an Inference?
Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sulfur
OR
What are the 6 elements of life?
The name for a carbohydrate's polymer.
What is a polysaccharide?
A creature that follows lines drawn with blue pen because of a chemical that mimics the pheromones given off by members of their colony.
What is a termite?
Something Mr. Sickler likes to shout to his class when they do well on a quiz
What is shhheeeeeeeeeee?
(has to match tone of voice to count)
Uses numbers to measure something.
Example: That giraffe is 10ft tall.
What is a quantitative observation?
What are protons and neutrons?
What is a hydrolysis reaction?
An observable event that occurs in the universe and can be explained or predicted using scientific knowledge.
What is a Phenomenon?
The shoe brand that sponsored Mr. Sickler during his U.S. Olympic Trials training cycle
What is On Running?
If Mr. Sickler drinks coffee, then he will have more energy to grade papers.
What is a hypothesis?
*A hypothesis needs two things to be a good one...
(1) A cause and effect relationship (if.....then...)
(2) Must be testable
2 or more forms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons and the same number of protons.
What are isotopes?
The nucleic acid that is directly responsible for protein synthesis.
What is RNA?
The bond that holds a water molecule together internally.
What is a covalent bond?
OR
What is a Stronger covalent bond?
What is one semester?
OR
What is a half of a year?
Ensures that your results are not by random chance and increases how precise your data is.
What are repeated trials?
*If we only do 3 trials we would have some confidence, but if we did 300 trials, we'd have A LOT of confidence!
The number of valence electrons in Zinc (Zn)
(Zinc has an atomic number of 30)
What are four valence electrons?
The two things that make up a phospholipid's hydrophilic head
What is a phosphate group and glycerol?
What monomer makes up the polysaccharide, starch?
What is glucose?
The type of cells Mr. Sickler studied during his Master's Degree Program that helped treat people with spina bifida
What are stem cells?