Scientific Method
Data
Lab Safety
Vocabulary 1
Characteristics of Life
100
What is the first step of the Scientific Method?
What is initial observation?
100
The coordinate axis where the dependent or responding variable is graphed.
What is y?
100
When safety goggles should be worn in science lab
What is whenever working with heat, glassware, or chemicals.... and when the teacher tells you to!
100
Factors that can be changed in an experiment.
What are variables?
100
All living things are made up of these basic units of life
What is a cell?
200
The word Science comes from a Latin verb meaning...
What is "to know"
200
The experiment variable graphed on the x-axis.
What is the independent variable?
200
Should be done if something seems unsafe in the science lab.
What is tell the teacher?
200
Variable that is not changed in an experiment
What is a constant?
200
Reacting to an outside stimuli falls under this characteristic of life
What is responding to the environment?
300
A reasonable or educated possible answer to a problem based on observations.
What is a hypothesis?
300
This type of graph is best used to show change over time
What is a line graph?
300
BONUS BOX!! Your team wins $300!!
Please pick again!
300
The group in an experiment or study that does not receive treatment by the researchers and is then used as a benchmark to measure how the other tested subjects do.
What is the control group?
300
What is evolution?
What is A change over time among a group of organisms?
400
How many variables are changed at a time in a controlled experiment?
What is 1?
400
The type of data that uses words to describe observations.
What is qualitative data?
400
The direction you point a test tube being heated
What is away from all people
400
Any organized system of inquiry in which science process skills are used to gather and communicate information.
What is the scientific method?
400
What is metabolism?
What is the sum of all the chemical reactions that take place within a cell or an organism to build up and break down needed materials
500
Another name for the independent variable is
What is manipulated variable?
500
The type of data that uses numbers (with units) to describe observations.
What is quantitative data?
500
Broken glass should be
What is picked up by the teacher and placed in a special container?
500
A decision reached after thinking about facts and details.
What is a conclusion?
500
What is homeostasis?
What is the process by which an organism maintains relatively stable internal conditions
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