Scientific Method
An educated guess
What is a hypothesis?
All living things are made of these.
What are cells?
All of water's unique properties are due to this...
What is polarity?
All macromolecules are considered polymers that are made up of these.
What are monomers?
Data taken using descriptions or general impressions.
What is qualitative data?
Observations that are collected during experimentation
What is data?
The ability to produce new organisms.
What is reproduction?
When water molecules come together to form raindrops in the water cycle, it's because of this special property.
What is cohesion?
This is the monomer of a carbohydrate.
What is glucose?
All populations or species undergo this over time or generations but individual organisms do not. Like how the tiger got it stripes.
What is evolution?
This is used as a basis for comparison in an experiment.
What is a control group?
This is the universal genetic code for all living things.
What is DNA?
Capillary action in plants is product of water's ability to stick to other things also known as this.
What is adhesion?
What three main elements are found in lipids?
What are C, H, and O?
If it weren't for this special property of water, all the aquatic organisms in our ponds would die in the winter.
What is density?
This is also known as the manipulated variable.
What is the independent variable?
What is growth and development?
Water is really great at holding in heat which makes it very important for regulating climate. This is known as...
What is heat capacity?
Give two examples of nucleic acids.
What are DNA and RNA?
The blood that circulates in your body is mostly water but contains many dissolved compounds or undissolved particles. Thanks to this property of water, the pH of our blood is usually about the same.
What is buffer capacity?
This variable is graphed on the Y axis during data analysis.
What is the dependent variable?
We eat food and, in turn, our body breaks down the food to harvest energy to stay alive.
What is metabolism?
Water easily dissolves sugars, minerals, gases and more. So we call it this.
What is the universal solvent?
This is the polymer of a protein.
Examples of this include our body temperature at 98.6 degrees or the pH of our blood remaining around 7.
What is homeostasis?