Is it alive???
Experiments
A little bit of everything
Let's get some Food...
In the Garden
100
We know that if it's alive, it is composed of these basic units of structure and function.
What are cells?
100
Many scientists have performed experiments to disprove the idea that living things arise from nonliving sources, an idea called this.
What is Spontaneous Generation?
100
An animal can go to a stream or to a sink to fulfill this basic need.
What is water?
100
Organisms that make their own food are called this, like a plant.
What is an autotroph?
100
A male rabbit is called this.
What is a buck?
200
If it's alive, it responds to this, a change in its environment.
What is a stimulus?
200
This man designed an experiment using two identical jars, two identical pieces of rotting meat, some flies, and a single jar cover.
Who is Francisco Redi?
200
Organisms must be able to keep the conditions inside their bodies stable. The process of maintaining stable internal conditions is called this.
What is homeostasis?
200
Organisms that cannot make their own food are called this, like humans or rabbits.
What is a heterotroph?
200
These are the names of our two chickens in the garden.
What is Henney and Penney?
300
If it's alive, it has the ability to produce offspring, a process called this.
What is reproduction?
300
Mr. Hunter designed an experiment to test if Roses needed water to grow. He planted two rose bushes in the garden. Each rose bush was planted in identical soil and given an identical amount of sunlight. He watered one rose bush and did not water the other rose bush. This was his manipulated variable.
What is "Whether or not he watered the bush"?
300
An organism that is composed of only cell is termed this. It must perform all of the functions necessary for its life within this one cell.
What is unicellular?
300
All living things get their energy, either directly or indirectly, from this.
What is the sun?
300
This is the type of tree that is in the center of the garden.
What is Gumbo Limbo?
400
If it's alive, it goes through this process of change that occurs during an organism's life to produce a more complex organism.
What is development?
400
In this type of experiment, a scientist performs two tests that are identical in every way except for one factor.
What is a controlled experiment?
400
Water makes up about 90 percent of the liquid part of this, the stuff inside your body that transports food, nutrients, and oxygen to your cells.
What is blood?
400
Living things either make their own food or eat outside foods as a way of obtaining and storing this. You're going to need it working out in that garden!
What is Energy?
400
The rabbits are this type of animal, meaning they give birth to live young, nurse their young, and have hair or fur.
What is a mammal?
500
If it's alive, it is made up of water, lipids, carbohydrates, and this other chemical building block of the body.
What is protein?
500
We always design our experiments keeping this in mind, the way to ask and answer questions by making observations and doing experiments.
What is the Scientific Method?
500
These are the THREE rules of the garden.
What is Ready, Respect, and Responsibility?
500
Plants make their own food using this process, turning the energy from light into sugars.
What is photosynthesis?
500
The leaves and stems of this common fruit are actually poisonous, a perfect example of why we never eat anything in the garden without permission.
What is a tomato?
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