Vocabulary
Using one or more senses to gather information.
What is observation?
Tool used to measure temperature.
What is a thermometer?
True or False. Science deals only with the natural world.
What is true?
Data that is considered to be descriptive and subjective.
What is qualitative data?
Living things use -- to carry out all life processes.
What is energy?
Something that has all the characteristics of life.
What is an organism?
Metric unit to measure length.
What is meters?
To explain or interpret the things observed is this.
What is an inference?
The variable that is changed or manipulated by the scientist.
What is the independent variable?
A bacterium dividing and becoming two bacteria.
What is reproduction?
A(n) -- which is the smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
Tool used to calculate mass.
What is a balance or scale?
Scientists use these when they cannot experiment in the lab.
What is models or simulations?
This step of the method comes after forming a hypothesis.
Ability to maintain a stable internal environment
What is homeostatis?
The etymology of science comes from the Latin word meaning "to -- "
What is know?
Temperature is measured in these units in the lab.
What is degrees Celsius or Kelvin?
A tadpole changing into a frog is an example of this.
What is metamorphasis?
The variable that is observed during the experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
Living things -- by increasing cell size and/or cell number.
What is grow?
The word 'hypothesis comes from this language.
What is Greek?
Most common instrument used to measure liquid volume.
What is a graduated cylinder?
The scientist who helped disprove the theory of spontaneous generation.
Who is Francesco Redi?
A hypothesis has to be this to be considered scientific.
What is testable?
Changes in an organism's internal or external environment.
What is stimuli?