Unifying Themes in Biology
An individual living thing
What is an organism?
A prediction as to what may occur
The metric system of measurement is based on powers of
What is powers of 10?
Biology is the study of ______.
What is life?
The basic unit of length in the metric system
What is the meter?
The parts of Earth that contain living things
The variable that is manipulated by a scientist
What is the independent variable?
How many meters are in 5.2 km?
What are 5,200 meters?
A body of knowledge and the process of gaining that knowledge
What is science?
This variable appears on the y axis.
What is the dependent variable?
The maintenance of constant internal conditions in an organism is known as
What is homeostasis?
The number of significant figures in a measurement is based on
What is the precision of the instrument?
The basic unit of mass in SI
What is a gram?
Helps identify outliers and shows the relationship between the independent and dependent variable.
What is a trendline?
A hypothesis may be disproved by a single experiment (True or False)
What is true?
A beneficial inherited trait that is passed onto future generations is a(n)
What is an adaptation?
Key aspects of a suitable hypothesis (name 2)
What is no first person/no "because"/no explanation/measureable?
The proper reading of measurement A according to significant figures?
What is 7.70 cm?
A prediction which has been tested over and over and receives the same results
What is a theory?
Name 3 characteristics of living things.
What are cells/DNA RNA/grow/?
The variety of life across the biosphere is called
What is biodiversity?
This word should never be in a scientific conclusion.
What is 'prove'?
The most precise instrument used to measure liquid volume
What is a graduated cylinder?
Define a constant.
What are the factors that do not change?
The proper reading of measurement B according to significant figures?
What is 26.7 mL?