Scientific Method
This is a testable prediction or educated guess about what will happen in an experiment
Hypothesis
This required feature goes at the top of a graph to describe what it is showing.
Title
Defined in the first characteristic of life, these are the basic units of structure and function in all living things.
Cells
An apple's red skin or sweet taste is an example of this non-numeric type of observation.
Qualitative
A researcher writes: "If sunlight exposure increases, then tomato plant height will increase because light provides energy for growth." This formal statement represents this step of the scientific method.
Hypothesis
It is the single factor that the experimenter deliberately changes or manipulates.
Independent Variable
The independent variable is always plotted along this axis.
What is the X-axis (or horizontal axis)?
What is the definition of an organism?
Anything that has all 8 of the characteristics of living organisms
Measuring an apple's mass as 150 grams or its diameter as 7 centimeters represents this numeric observation type.
Quanitative
A student tests how study time affects test scores and records scores of 85%, 92%, and 78%. This specific type of data was collected.
Quantitative data
These are the two primary tools scientists use to gather information directly during an observation.
Five senses and prior knowledge
Axis labels must always include these in parentheses so the reader knows how data was measured.
Units of measurement
While growth is the addition of physical mass, this term refers to the natural changes that occur during an organism's life.
Development
When classifying specimens for life, a seed or a dried yeast packet would be placed in this living state.
Dormant
Jordan notices a potted plant leaning toward a bright window. In this scenario, the sunlight shifting represents this component of an environmental interaction
Stimulus
Experimenters keep these factors completely the same across all test groups to ensure a fair test.
Constants
This feature explains what different colors, symbols, or line patterns represent on a multi-set graph.
Key
This term describes the sum of all chemical reactions in an organism that change food into usable energy.
Metabolism
An immediate physical reaction triggered by a change in an organism's internal or external environment.
Response (to a stimulus)
An athlete sweats during a midday run in the heat to keep their core temperature near 98.6°F. Their body is actively maintaining this state.
Homeostasis
This is why an experimenter must only test one independent variable at a time.
What is to ensure a fair test (or to know which variable caused the observed change)?
The numbers along an axis must use this consistent system so equal spacing represents equal intervals.
Scale
Unlike other characteristics of life, this process is essential for the survival of a species, but not for an individual organism.
Reproduction
An inherited characteristic that results from changes to a species over time to aid its survival
Adaptation
Maya sprays 5 plants with fertilizer and 5 plants with plain water. The group receiving only plain water acts as this experimental baseline.
Control group