Scientific Method and Reasoning
You learned in elementary school that all birds have feathers. You see an animal with feathers and assume it’s a bird. What type of reasoning is this?
What is inductive reasoning?
This tool is used to measure the mass of an object.
What is a balance?
In a graduated cylinder, the volume of liquid should be read at this point.
What is the bottom of the meniscus (Point B)?
The scientist who first disproved spontaneous generation was this person.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Shivering when you are cold is an example of this characteristic of life.
What is maintaining internal balance?
The information gathered from experiments is called this.
What is data?
When using chemicals or heat, it’s important to wear these.
What are safety goggles?
The water in a graduated cylinder rises from 3.0 mL to 5.0 mL after a rock is dropped into it. What is the volume of the rock?
What is 2.0 mL?
In an experiment with meat and flies, the jar was covered with gauze to allow air but prevent this.
What are flies?
All living things have this universal characteristic related to information storage.
What is a universal genetic code?
You see a moose captured by a game camera and tally the number of moose per day. What type of information is this?
What is quantitative data?
If an accident occurs during a science experiment, this is the first thing you should do.
What is report it to the teacher?
On a graph showing the relationship between pressure and temperature, pressure is this type of variable.
What is the independent variable?
The presence of a circle around an antiseptic disc in a petri dish experiment suggests this.
What is the antiseptic soap prevented bacterial growth?
This characteristic of life involves using energy to perform biological functions.
What is metabolism?
In an experiment, this variable is manipulated by the researcher.
What is the independent variable?
Washing your hands with soap and water after doing a lab is an example of following this.
What is a lab safety rule?
If the temperature of a gas is measured at 60 degrees, what pressure might you expect?
What is 34 Pa?
This theory states that life arises from other living things.
What is biogenesis?
Living things change over time through this process.
What is evolution?
The theory that all living things arise from other living things is called this.
What is biogenesis?
If a chemical splashes on you, wash it off for this many seconds.
What is 15 seconds?
A motion-activated game camera captures images of wildlife. This type of data collection is known as this.
What is quantitative data collection?
In a famous experiment, the scientist used meat in jars to disprove this theory.
What is spontaneous generation?
All living organisms are composed of these basic structural units.
What are cells?