An organized problem solving procedure scientists use
What is the scientific method?
We use this type of microscope in our classroom.
What is the compound light microscope?
Cell organelle that is often called the gatekeeper.
What is the cell membrane?
This device is used to measure mass in a scientific setting.
What is a triple beam balance?
These are the two organelles only plant cells have.
What are a cell wall and chloroplast?
Is being tested in an experiment
What is a variable or independent variable?
The organic material Robert Hooke first observed when he coined the term cells.
What is a cork?
The weight on this triple beam balance.
What is 41g?
This is the simplest form of life.
What is a cell?
The item that stays the same in an experiment and is not tested
What is the control?
In order for scientific data to be considered accurate and reliable the experiment needs to be tested this many times.
This organelle is responsible for making food by converting sunlight to glucose.
What is the chloroplast?
A device that is used to measure liquids in a scientific setting.
What is a graduated cylinder?
A company wants to test a new dog food that is supposed to help overweight dogs lose weight. 50 dogs are chosen to get the new food. 50 dogs continue their normal diet. After 1 month the dogs are checked to see if they lost any weight. The weight change seen is this type of variable.
What is dependent variable?
The 7 steps of the Scientific Method in order.
State the problem, gather information, form a hypothesis, perform an experiment, analyze data, draw a conclusion, communicate results.
Tells us how nature works and can be proven true by the scientific method
What is scientific law?
The cell organelle that is a tunnel system throughout the cell.
The unit of measurement for temperature in science.
What is Celsius?
A company wants to test a new dog food that is supposed to help overweight dogs lose weight. 50 dogs are chosen to get the new food. 50 dogs continue their normal diet. After 1 month the dogs are checked to see if they lost any weight. The type of dog food is this variable.
Shelly thought of a problem and created a hypothesis. If I want to see which seeds grow in my backyard soil I would need to plant different types of seeds. Shelly was talking about this type of variable.
What is independent variable?
Cell theory tells us these three things.
What are cells are the basic units of life, all cells come from other cells, and all organisms have 1 or more cells?
This organelle is larger in plant cells than in animal cells and stores water.
What is the vacuole?
This type of measurement is used across all science labs to maintain consistency.
What is the metric system?
A company wants to test a new dog food that is supposed to help overweight dogs lose weight. 50 dogs are chosen to get the new food. 50 dogs continue their normal diet. After 1 month the dogs are checked to see if they lost any weight. The dogs that got the new food are this type of group.
What is the experimental group?