Definitions on scientific method
Measure by seeing
What is qualitative
what is cellular respiration?
how cells breathe using energy
Made up of what?
Cells
what are cells jobs?
use energy, breakdown nutrients, build molecules and grow
stage 1
observation
How much?
What is Quantitative
What is a multicellular organism?
have sense organs and/or nervous system to respond to stimuli
What do they take in?
food/nutrients
who makes the nutrients?
producers
stage 2?
ask a question
An idea of what will happen based on what you already know
What is hypothesis
what is a unicellular organism?
sense and respond to changes in environment, one cell big
what do they use?
energy
who uses energy?
consumers
stage 3?
form a hypothesis
What are we testing?
What is the independent variable
What is internal stimuli?
things that occur inside the body
What do they make?
waste
how is waste removed?
cell membrane or vesicle
stage 4?
make predicition
What we measure?
What is dependent variable
external stimuli?
things that occur outside the body
what do living things respond to?
stimuli, grow and reproduce
how to cells grow?
increasing in size or in the number of cells, or both
stage 5?
test prediction