Vocabulary
Something that causes disease.
What is a pathogen?
All living things are made of these
We looked at these four things under the microscope
What is sand, salt, cheek cells, and onion.
What is the difference between a unicellular and a multicellular organism?
What is...
Unicellular organisms are made of only one cell and multicellular organisms are made of many cells
A pathogen that is considered non-living.
What is a virus?
In an investigation, this means something is unclear or confusing.
What is ambiguity
What is...because it is not made of cells.
under the microscope, the onion appeared to have tiny rectangular shaped boxes. These are called....
What are cells
The term for something that is too small to be seen with just the eye.
What is microscopic
The name of the doctor in London who was trying to track down the source of the cholera.
What is John Snow
This refers to a scientist being truthful in his or her findings
What is intellectual honesty
Hair is considered a non-living thing. Why is this if it came off a person, which IS a living thing?
What is...
Hair itself is not made of cells, and it doesn't have any other characteristics of living things.
The sand looked like tiny rocks under the microscope...some were clear and some were gray, tan or yellowish. What is sand made of?
A tool for viewing things that are too small to be seen with just the eye.
What is a microscope
What does CDC stand for
What is Centers for Disease Control.
What do we call the part of an experiment that is considered "normal", or "expected"? We use this to compare for any changes.
What is standard of comparison.
Is bacteria classified as living or non-living?
What is living
Salt had this shape under the microscope
What is cube shaped
What is the purpose of investigation.
Cholera is this type of pathogen
What is bacteria
The order of measurements and size.
Ex. Sand is the same thing as a rock, just on a smaller _________________.
What is scale
Fungi are considered living things. They are not considered plants because they cannot do this.
What is make their own food/go through photosynthesis.
This is the scientific word for cheek cell.
What is epithelial cell
Some viruses make more of itself. What is this process called?
What is replicate?
The cholera got into the water at the Broad Street pump because it was seeping in from what source?
What are the outdoor toilets.