Scientific Thought
The habit of mind in which a person questions the validity of accepted ideas. In other words, people are not sure about how true something is.
What is Skepticism
The group in the experiment that is given the placebo, or the "fake" treatment. They are not given the real treatment.
What is the control group
The study of life
What is Biology
What is the abbreviation for the international system of units?
What is SI. It stands for Systeme International, which is french.
The maintenance of a stable internal environment despite changes outside of the body. Ex. keeping your body at 98.6 degrees in the winter time.
What is homeostasis.
Science is governed by truths that are valid everywhere in the universe. These truths are called ...
What are Universal Laws
This is what we are changing in an experiment. This is the treatment and what we are testing.
What is Independent variable.
Which subcategory would you place a stinkbug into?
What is Alive.
This tool helps magnify very small organisms or objects.
What is microscope
The sum of all chemical reactions carried out by the organism.
What is Metabolism.
This is a word referring to morals and is important when considering performing a scientific experiment or reporting results of a experiment.
What is Ethics
This is what changes as a result of the treatment. It is the data we collect.
What is the dependent variable.
Basil is an herb, but 'basal' means something else. If something is basal, where is it found?
What is, near the base.
A method of keeping unwanted organisms out of a lab to minimize the possibility of contamination. hint: a "technique" that is used to create an environment with no organisms.
What is Sterile technique
Plants bending towards sunlight is an example of this property of life. Also, birds ruffling their feathers in cold weather.
What is response to environment or response to a stimulus.
An explanation based on a broad range of data and observations.
What is Theory
This is how scientific data is collected. (hint: you use one or more of your senses).
What is Observation
Inherited traits that change over many generations is a process known as
What is evolution
What are three things that you must wear goggles to use in a lab?
What are heat, glassware, and chemicals.
The process by which organisms make more of their own kind from one generation to the next
What is reproduction.
A specific, testable prediction for a limited set of conditions is a ...
What is Hypothesis
If a scientist was being paid by the Environmental protection agency to show that seagulls are being killed by plastic bottles, what may be influencing the credibility of the scientist? (hint: This scientist has a personal interest in proving that seagulls are being killed so the design of his experiment may be altered to give evidence to this idea)
What is Bias
How many millimeters are in a meter?
What is 1000
What type of microscope will we be using in this class? a. hubble microscope b. compound light microscope c. electron microscope d. proton microscope
What is compound light microscope.
Organisms get bigger, which is called growth. They also experience changes. What is this called?
What is development.