what is life
This characteristic of life allows an organism to maintain stable internal conditions.
What is homeostasis
What is: A comprehensive framework of beliefs about the nature of reality.
What is worldview?
A scientist uses this 7 step process to investigate questions and collect evidence.
What is the scientific method?
This is the variable that a scientist intentionally changes.
What is independent variable?
This graph is best for comparing different categories, such as the prices of six different cars.
What is a bar graph?
A flower opens when exposed to sunlight. This is an example of an organism doing what?
What is responding to a stimulus
This worldview believes in the existence of God.
What is Theism?
A scientist makes a possible explanation or prediction that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
This is the variable that is measured during an experiment.
What is dependent variable?
This graph is best for showing how something changes over time.
What is a line graph?
A person becomes thirsty after exercising and drinks water to help keep the body's internal conditions stable. Which characteristic of life is being demonstrated?
What is homeostasis?
In this worldview, science is considered the ultimate authority and source of truth.
What is secular humanism?
A scientist wants to know whether changing the amount of salt in water affects the number of plants that can live in it. What should the scientist change?
What is the amount of salt in water?
A scientist changes the amount of sunlight different plants receive and measures how tall they grow. What is the dependent variable?
What is plant height?
A scientist wants to show how the number of bacteria changes every hour for 12 hours. Which graph would be best?
What is a line graph?
A population gradually becomes better suited to its environment over many generations. This characteristic of life is being demonstrated.
Two worldviews give different answers about the origin of life. Which worldview teaches that life originated through the workmanship of God?
What is biblical christianity?
Why is it important for a scientist to keep some variables the same during an experiment?
To make the experiment a fair test and determine whether the independent variable caused changes in the dependent variable.
A scientist changes the amount of salt in water and measures how many plants can survive. What is the independent variable?
What is the amount of salt in water?
A graph shows the percentage of students who prefer each type of pet. Which type of graph would best represent these data?
What is a pie chart?
A student says, "All living things have to be able to walk." Explain why this statement is incorrect and name one actual characteristic shared by all living things.
Walking is not a characteristic shared by all living things. Examples include cells, energy use, growth/development, reproduction, response to stimuli, homeostasis, and adaptation.
A student says, "Science has exactly the same role in every worldview." Based on what you've learned, explain why this is incorrect.
Different worldviews can have different beliefs about the role and authority of science.
A scientist wants to determine whether temperature affects the rate at which bacteria grows. Give an example of one thing the scientist should change and one thing the scientist should measure.
What is... change the temperature (independent variable) and measure the rate of bacterial growth (dependent variable).
A scientist investigates whether the number of earthworms in soil affects radish growth. The scientist uses the same type of soil and the same type of radish seeds for every trial. What are these two variables?
What are control variables?
A scientist has numerical data grouped into ranges, such as the number of students scoring 0–10, 11–20, 21–30, and so on. Which graph would best represent these data?
What is a histogram?