Scientific Method
Root Words
Ecology
Geology
General Concepts
100

The variable that is changed.

What is INDEPENDENT?

100

life, living.

What is BIO?

100

A relationship between two organisms. The three types are commensalism, mutualism, and parasitism.

What is an SYMBIOTIC?

100

The study of the Earth's surface.

What is TOPOGRAPHY?

100

The energy possessed by an object in motion.

What is KINETIC?

200

This group is used for comparison. It does not have an experimental variable applied to it.

What is CONTROL?

200

"branch of science, knowledge." Meaning the study of?

What is OLOGY?

200

An organism that has a backbone.

What is a VERTEBRATE?

200

Molten rock ABOVE the Earth's surface?

What is LAVA?

200

Energy cannot be created or destroyed.

What is THE LAW OF CONSERVATION OF ENERGY?

300
A statement that provides a basic, untested explanation to a phenomenon or event. 

What is a HYPOTHESIS?

300

not, without, lacking.

What is -A/AN?

300
Organisms which gain food by breaking down decaying/dead organisms.

What are DECOMPOSERS?

300

Rocks formed from the collection of small particles such as sand.

What are SEDIMENTARY?

300
The specific GENES responsible for creating a certain trait or feature.

What is GENOTYPE?

400

A logical statement about what will happen in the future.

What is PREDICTION?

400

Inflammation

What is -ITIS?

400

Organisms that eat producers.

What are PRIMARY CONSUMERS?

400

The process wherein rocks and minerals are weakened and broken down by various factors such as weather conditions, plants and animals, water, etc. 

What is WEATHERING?

400

The carrier of DNA.

What is a CHROMOSOME?

500

An educated guess made from data/evidence.

What is an INFERENCE?

500

Small

What is MICRO?

500

The process where beneficial traits help an organism survive and pass on its traits. Also known as the "survival of the fittest."

What is NATURAL SELECTION?

500

The section of land formed from the build-up of sediment as a river slows down upon flowing into another body of water (such as the ocean).

What is DELTA?

500

The messenger between DNA information and the ribosomes.

What is MESSENGER DNA (mRNA)?