Characteristics of Organisms
Methods of Science
Observations VS Inference
Nature of Science
Science Potpourri
100
The addition of cells.
What is growth?
100
The test of a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
100
The penguin has a temperature of 22 degrees Celsius.
What is an observation?
100
What science is based on.
What is evidence?
100
The third planet from the sun.
What is the Earth?
200
An example of a stimulus and a response experienced by a Canada Goose.
What is shorter day-length and flying south? (others may be reasonably substituted)
200
All of the things in an experiment that do not change (remain the same).
What are constants?
200
The penguin must be ill.
What is an inference?
200
Astrology. Chiropractic adjustments. Gramma's remedies.
What is pseudoscience?
200
The cause of the common cold.
What is a virus?
300
Two types. Dependent upon the number of parents.
What is reproduction?
300
A proposed answer or solution to a problem or question about nature.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This unknown fossil is likely the vertebrae of a shark.
What is an inference?
300
A statement based on repeated experimental observations that describes some aspects of the universe.
What is a scientific law?
300
The 3 celestial events that occurred last Friday night.
What are a full moon, a (penumbral) eclipse of the moon, and a comet (45d) flyby?
400
A beehive. A sunflower's seed arrangement. A fish's right and left pectoral fins. Blood cells in plasma.
What is organization?
400
The part of an experiment that is being tested.
What is the independent variable?
400
Fifteen footprints in the sand.
What is an observation?
400
An explanation based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment.
What is a scientific theory?
400
Einstein's equation.
What is e=mc2?
500
This can be a result of either a positive or a negative feedback system.
What is homeostasis?
500
The two types of data that can be collected for scientific research.
What are quantitative and qualitative data?
500
A rainbow in the western sky! It must be raining there!
What is BOTH an observation and an inference?
500
The explanation of how organism's have a common ancestor.
What is evolution?
500
The largest and smallest mammals on Earth.
What is the Blue Whale and the Etruscan (aka: Bumblebee shrew) Shrew?
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