Experimental Design
Classification
Natural Selection
Nature of Science
Feeling Lucky?
100
The variable in an experiment that a scientist manipulates.
What is the independent variable? Follow up question: What is the name of the variable that responds to the manipulation of the IV?
100
King Phillip Came Over For Green Socks
What is the mnemonic device for the order of classification within a Domain?
100
More offspring are born than can survive.
What is the prerequisite for natural selection that requires competition?
100
Gathering data with all senses. NO interpretation. Much harder to do than it sounds!
What is an observation?
100
All the living and non-living things interacting in an area.
What is an ecosystem? Follow up question - What is the more inclusive and dynamic term that Ms Jenkins mentioned from her summer conference for this same idea?
200
A study in which the natural world is observed and data is collected in order to confirm, contradict, or develop a hypothesis. Nothing, however, is manipulated.
What is an observational study? Follow-up question: If given a written description of a study, how could you tell whether it was an observational study? Why are observational studies sometimes that only kind of study that can be done?
200
The only Domain which does not include prokaryotes.
What is Eukarya?
200
Individuals of a species vary.
What is a prerequisite of natural selection based on variation?
200
An explanation. AKA hypothesis. What we usually jump to.
What is an inference?
200
The only Kingdom where all species are multicellular.
What is Anamalia?
300
A study in which a scientist manipulates a variable.
What is an experiment? Follow up question - If given a written description of a study, how could you tell whether or not it was an experiment?
300
Contains no membrane bound organelles.
What is prokaryote? Follow up question - which of the Domains are prokaryotic?
300
Trait that enhances survival and reproduction in a particular habitat.
What is an adaptation?
300
Saying what you think will happen next if one's hypothesis is correct.
What is a prediction? Follow up question: In what tense must all predictions be written?
300
There is a meaningful relationship in the data, but not necessarily cause and effect.
What is correlative data?
400
A study in which all variables are held constant except for the one whose effect is being studied.
What is a controlled experiment? Follow up question: If given a description of a study, how could you tell whether or not it was a controlled study?
400
Genus species
What comprises the binomial scientific name?
400
Change in a population's gene pool
What is evolution?
400
When one's valuing of certain characteristics skews ones ability to view new evidence objectively.
What is value attribution? Follow up question - Can you name at least 2 examples of this kind of bias?
400
It causes a change in DNA when it is copied and happens with greater frequency in prokaryotes.
What are mutations?
500
Data that can only be generated by a controlled study.
What is causative data? Follow up question - Why can this data only be generated by controlled studies? What kind of data is generated by all other studies?
500
Understanding of Evolution. Technology (microscopes and DNA)
What explains why we went from two Kingdoms in the 1700's time to 6 Kingdoms in the 1990's
500
The number of individuals of a species living in an area
What is a population?
500
It is intended to protect against bias, make sure one's scientific process is sound, and that the interpretation of results makes sense.
What is peer review?
500
A group of species that all descend from a common ancestor and all descendants from that ancestor.
What is a clade?
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