Nature of Science
Conducting the exact same experiment over and over and over again.
What is repetition?
The layer under the Earth's crust.
What is the mantle?
In natural selection, this decides who survives and who doesn't.
What is nature?
This is a combination of two or more substances that have not combined chemically, and can be separated by physical means.
What is a mixture?
Ice cream melting is an example of this kind of change.
What is a physical change?
This describes an observed pattern in nature.
What is Scientific Law?
The sphere that contains Earth's metals and rocks.
What is the geosphere?
This is an organism that eats other organisms for energy.
What is a consumer?
These are substances that are the building blocks of all matter; and are made up of one kind of atom.
What are elements?
Observations, measurements, and other types of data scientists gather is also known as __________.
This is a method for identifying relationships between different variables, where only one variable is changed at a time.
What is a controlled experiment?
Animals, forests, grasslands, and trees belong to this sphere.
What is the biosphere?
This is the organism's ability to maintain steady (stable) internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?
This is the energy that is directly related to an object's height off of the ground.
What is gravitational potential energy?
The interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association is called this.
Objects or ideas that represent other things; they help us to understand objects or ideas that are too small or too big to see with our eyes.
What are models?
This is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun.
What is an Astronomical Unit?
A possible combination of alleles in a gene is known as...
What is genotype?
This is all the kinetic and potential energy that is associated with an object's motion and position.
What is mechanical energy?
Cellular respiration takes place in this organelle.
Information/measurements that are collected from an observation, experiment, or investigation; scientists analyze and record this information in order to draw conclusions.
This is a large group or chain of islands.
What is an archipelago?
This allele's traits only show up when no dominant allele is present.
What is a recessive allele?
This is the relationship between an object's mass and volume.
The same number of protons in an atom is also referred to as ________.
What is an Atomic Number?