Unit 0
It is the data gathered in every experiment, and used to support the claim made. This is what the "E" in CER stands for.
What is evidence?
It's one of the organelles responsible for generating energy in the form of ATP. It's also one of the sites of cellular respiration, the other being the cytoplasm. If you learn anything from science class, it's that this is the powerhouse of the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
A thing that is not alive, never has been alive, and never will be alive. It comes from the latin roots meaning "not" and "alive."
What is abiotic?
The scientist famous for his 3 Laws of Motion, known as the Father of Modern Physics. He was born in 1643 in England, was knighted in 1701, and never married.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is a true statement?
The Sun is the largest object in our solar system, but Jupiter is the largest planet.
The minimum number of sentences required in the reasoning section of a CER. One for each piece of evidence at least.
What is 3?
An object with this property with repel alike poles and attract opposite poles. It can also attract objects made of certain metals such as iron, steel, and cobalt.
What is magnetic?
We use this to show how ecosystems are organized. At the very bottom are producers who make their own food, then each layer above it shows a smaller and smaller group of consumers who eat other living things.
What is a food or energy pyramid?
This Law of Motion is a mathematical formula for determining an object's acceleration. It's the force applied to it divided by it's mass, if you were having second thoughts.
What is the 2nd Law of Motion?
The smallest bone in the human body is located in your nose.
What is a false statement?
The smallest bone in your body is the stapes, in your ear.
Making these kinds of graphs will be useful if you were tracking the pH changes of a lake over many months, or changes to a population of deer over many years, or the distance traveled by a rocket over many minutes.
What is a line graph?
A scientist specializing in this field would be familiar with bears, bats, baboons, but not barracuda. It's the study of animals that give birth to live young.
What is mammalogy?
When a living thing dies and is enclosed in sediment, they can sometimes leave an imprint on the rock around them. The soft parts of their bodies like muscles don't appear, but bones definitely do! This is also a term for a nonrenewable energy source, followed by "fuel."
What is a fossil?
Another famous scientist, Albert Einstein, discovered that light is not just a wave or just a particle, it acts as both. This is the term for a particle/wave of light, coming from the latin root for sunlight.
What is a photon?
The animal that kills the most people in the world annually is the mosquito.
What is a true statement?
The animal with the 2nd most human kills is other humans, and the animal with the 3rd is snakes.
This type of data is typically preferred amongst scientists, because it gives numerical or measurable information, rather than subjective qualities.
What is quantitative data?
This is the term given to cancer cells that are not dormant, they are actively multiplying and dangerous to the human body. It stems from the Latin word meaning "bad."
What is malignant?
Most sea animals have one, but crabs have theirs on the outside. Rays and sharks have ones made of a softer material. Members of the cnidarian family don't have one at all.
What are skeletons?
Color is a physical property of light, meaning something is physically different between a wave of red and a wave of yellow light. Our brains are only capable of capturing red, green, or blue light. Of those 3, red has the longest, and blue has the shortest.
What is wavelength?
The only mammal in the world that lays eggs is the platypus.
What is a false statement?
The echidna is a small thorny mammal that lays eggs.
The statement upon which a scientific discovery is based in a report or lab write up. It's less of a guess than a hypothesis, which is where it gets its name from.
What is a thesis statement?
This is the common word for a disease known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy. It is a mutated protein found in the brains of dead farm animals, but behaves like a virus. Even though the chances of a human getting this disease is rare, it's symptoms are quite crazy.
What is Mad Cow Disease?
This is the scientist who first devised an explanation for common traits being favored after generations of a species surviving in harsh environments. His theory of Natural Selection has been the corner stone of biology for centuries, and has been proven true time and time again.
Who is Alfred Russel Wallace?
This symbol is used to represent the Stefan–Boltzmann constant in equations measuring the heat radiating off an object. It's also used in physics to measure cross-sections, and chemistry to show reactions. It looks like a backwards E, but in Greek it's actually an S.
What is Sigma?
Malacology is the study of mollusks.
What is a true statement?
Malacologists study animals with no spinal chord and mostly soft bodies such as snails, clams, octopi and squids.