A system that can not be easily understood or studied.
What is a Black Box?
100
This section provides basic information and helps formulate the hypothesis.
What is background research?
100
This colorful portion of a plant is responsible for sexual reproduction.
What is a Flower?
100
These eight attributes determine if something is living.
What are the characteristics of life?
100
This lighted circle displays all that you see when you look into the microscope.
What is the field of view?
200
The variable in a controlled experiment that will be changed by the investigator.
What is the independent Variable?
200
The shopping list for a science project
What is the materials section?
200
The female reproductive structure in a plant.
What is a pistil?
200
The basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
200
This number is obtained by multiplying the magnification of the objective lens by the magnification of the ocular lens.
What is the total magnification?
300
This model may be represented as a drawing or even a mathematical equation.
What is a conceptual model?
300
This section summarizes the data tables and graphs in a few paragraphs.
What are results?
300
The start of growth and development of a seed.
What is germination?
300
Cells that contain a nucleus and membrane bound organelles.
What are Eukaryotic cells?
300
The fluid portion of a cell's interior.
What is cytoplasm?
400
A group of objects that work together in a meaningful way.
What is a system?
400
This section tells what the researcher thinks will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
400
This "snack" is placed with the plant embryo inside the seed coat of a seed.
What is the cotyledon?
400
A state of suspended biological activity. (alive but inactive)
What is dormant?
400
A flat region parallel to the microscope slide where the image of the specimen is in focus.
What is the focal plane?
500
The repetition of an experiment several times to insure accurate results
What are multiple trials?
500
This section tells what should be investigated further or raises new questions as a result of an investigation.
What is the next time section?
500
The union of the nucleus of an egg with the nucleus of a sperm to produce a cell that will divide to become a new organism of the same type as the parent cells.
What is Fertilization?
500
A taxonomic category grouping together all forms of life that share fundamental characteristics
What is a Kingdom?
500
An Aquatic plant with translucent leaves that grows in freshwater ponds studied in this unit.