Scientific Inquiry
Ecosystems
Physical Science
Earth Science
100
Factor that may or may not change.
What is a dependent variable?
100
Living.
What is biotic?
100
Point at which a solid turns into a liquid.
What is melting point?
100
Grassland gradually gives way to trees.
What is old-field succession?
200
Number of observations or data.
What is sample size?
200
Non-living
What is abiotic?
200
Point at which a liquid turns into a gas.
What is boiling point?
200
Class that has the most similar traits.
What is species?
300
Single factor that changes the experiment.
What is an independent variable?
300
External response to an internal condition.
What is homeostasis?
300
Absorbs heat.
What is endothermic?
300
Physical movement of weathered material as by water, wind ice, and so on.
What is erosion?
400
A set of observations in an experiment where the independent variable is changed.
What is a control group?
400
Three conditions of a ecosystem.
What are natural boundary, matter, constant and changing interaction between organisms and their surroundings?
400
Gives off heat.
What is exothermic?
400
The wearing down of rocks and soil by physical or chemical process.
What is weathering?
500
Quantities that remain constant in the lab
What is a controlled variable?
500
A lake gradually fills up with sediment.
What is lake succession.
500
Solid to gas.
What is sublimation?
500
When one celestial object is blocked by another?
What is an eclipse?
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