Lab Tools
This hand-held lab tool would be most useful in helping Mary see the bacteria growing in a petri dish.
What is a hand lens?
All living things are made of these.
What are cells?
This is a possible explanation that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
This type of data is numerical.
What is quantitative data?
This branch of science studies living things.
What is biology?
This lab tool could be used for transferring a small amount of liquid from one container to another.
What is a pipette?
Living things must use this to carry out cell processes like growth and repair.
What is energy?
This is any part of an experiment that is kept the same.
What is a constant?
This type of data is descriptive and uses words.
What is qualitative data?
These are what you see, smell, hear, etc.
What are observations?
This lab tool would be useful in determining the mass of an object.
What is a balance?
All living things can produce new organisms through this process.
What is reproduction?
This variable is purposefully changed by the scientist.
What is the independent variable?
This variable changes in response to the independent variable.
What is the dependent variable?
This is a conclusion or deduction about an object or outcome based on your observations.
What is an inference?
This lab tool is useful for looking at microscopic specimen.
What is a microscope?
This characteristic allows living things to keep internal conditions stable.
What is homeostasis?
This is the group used for comparison in an experiment.
What is the control group?
This step comes after collecting and analyzing data in the scientific method.
What is drawing a conclusion?
This describes a pattern or relationship in nature and explains how something happens.
What is a law?
This lab tool is useful for determining the temperature of a liquid.
What is a thermometer?
This characteristic allows organisms to respond to changes in their environment.
What is response to stimuli?
Scientists asks questions about the world around us based on these.
What are observations?
This is the information you use to support or reject a hypothesis.
What is data (or evidence)?
This is an explanation of an observed phenomenon that organizes facts and research from scientists to explain WHY something happens.
What is a theory?