Working Scientifically
What is the process of forming and testing hypotheses?
What is the Scientific Method?
This variable is the thing that you measure in an experiment
What is the dependent variable?
These two things are reactants that create energy for a plant
What are glucose and water?
Carbohydrates are broken down into this substance during digestion
What is glucose?
This organelle is responsible for respiration in animal cells
What are mitochondria?
A way to reduce risk in an experiment
What is a Control measure?
On a graph, if both data sets are increasing, what is their relationship?
This tightly packed layer of a leaf handles most of the photosynthesis for a plant
What is the Palisade mesophyll?
Oxygen diffuses into the blood through this exchange surface
What are alveoli
The outer barrier on a plant cell
What is the cell wall?
Name the 3 C's of communicating information
What are clear, concise, and coherent?
I want to graph continuous data. Name one graph or chart that can be used
What is a histogram? What is a line graph?
When plant cells are not green, they are lacking what organelle?
What are chloroplasts?
These are the waste products that come from aerobic respiration
What are CO2 and H2O
The jelly-like substance inside most cells
What is cytoplasm?
Evidence that is gathered from one story and cannot be used to reason
What is anecdotal evidence?
The most common value in a data set
What is the chemical that makes plants green?
What is chlorophyll?
Cellular respiration produces this in a cell
What is energy
These specialized cells are able to contract and relax
What are muscle cells?
A means of explaining why something happens
What is a scientific theory?
In my experiment, I get similar results every time. what kind of data am I collecting?
What is precise data?
The specialized cells used for transporting water from the roots of a plant
What are xylem cells?
Name the three organ systems responsible for respiration
What are the respiratory, digestive, and circulatory systems?
Robert Hooke discovered empty spaces inside a piece of cork. what did he name them?
What are cells?