Characteristics of Life
Scientific Investigation
More Scientific Investigation
Balancing Internal Conditions
Edison High School Trivia
200
The study of living things
What is biology?
200
collecting information using your senses
What is an observation?
200
An educated guess that can be tested scientifcially
What is an hypothesis?
200
This is the process of balancing internal conditions
What is maintaining homeostasis?
200
This is the school mascot
What is an eagle?
400
All living things are made of these
What are cells?
400
An attempt to explain observations (guess based on observations)
What is an inference?
400
This is the part of the experiment that is measured by the scientist
What is the DV (Dependent Variable)?
400
This is what organisms must do to keep an internal balance of conditions (Hint: one of the "R"s in DOGRACER)
What is respond to stimuli?
400
The school colors
What are red, white, and blue?
600
Cells make up tissues, tissues make up organs, organs make up organ systmes
What is organized?
600
The part of the experiment changed or manipulated by the scientist
What is the Independent Variable?
600
This step comes after making a hypothesis
What is conduct an experiment?
600
A boy jumps into a cold swimming pool and his body temperature goes down. His muscles, blood vessels, and nervous system work together to restore his body temperature.
What is the term to best describe this process?
What is a homeostasis?
600
The school principal’s name
What is Ms. Brumfield?
800
The type of development shown here
What is metamorphosis?
800
These remain the same for all parts of the experiment
What are constants?
800
This part of the experiment is left unchanged and is used for comparison to the experimental results
What is the control or control group?
800
This response is a result of increased body temperature
What is sweating?
800
The number of students enrolled
What is 2100? Answers from 2000-2200 are acceptable.
1000
The change in population over many generations
What is evolution?
1000
This is why you only have one IV
What makes the experiment valid? or How can you tell what caused the results or the change in the DV?
1000
These two parts are included in the hypothesis
What is the IV and the DV?
1000
In conditions of stress or fear, the human adrenal gland may produce adrenaline. What is an effect adrenaline can have on the body?
What is increased blood pressure, decreased rate of breathing, or increased production of red blood cells?
1000
The first year Edison opened
What is 1962?