The definition of biology.
What is the study of life?
By measuring the height of the tortoise, this scientist is gathering ___________.
What is QUANTITATIVE DATA.
The name of the vertical axis.
What is the Y-axis?
The terms that stand for CER.
What are Claim-Evidence-Reasoning?
What is Mrs. Newcomer's favorite sport?
What is BASKETBALL
The most basic unit of life
What is the cell?
A variable that is measured/observed?
What is a dependent variable?
The axis on which the independent variable belongs.
What is the X-axis?
The definition of hypothesis
A testable prediction or explanation of a natural phenomenon.
An organized way to record data
What is a DATA TABLE
An explanation for why fire is or is not alive.
A variable that is manipulated by the scientist.
What is an independent variable?
To be useful in science, a hypothesis must be _____.
What is TESTABLE
The base unit scientists use for measuring volume
What is a liter?
Tells you what happens repeatedly in nature
What is SCIENTIFIC LAW
An example of homeostasis in the human body
What is (any of these) shivering when cold, sweating when hot, urinating when too much water is in the body, releasing insulin when blood sugar levels are too high, etc.?
The independent variable in an experiment with the research question "What is the effect of sleep deprivation on attention span?"
What is the amount of sleep deprivation?
The conditions for using a line graph.
What is when the data is continuous such as change over time?
The average of the numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
What is 5?
A predicted answer to a scientific question; an educated guess (if...then)
What is a HYPOTHESIS
The 8 characteristics of life
What are "made up of cells, reproduction, based on a universal code, growth and development, need for materials and energy, response to the environment, maintaining internal balance, evolution".
Two possible control variables for an experiment with the research question "How does amount of time spent on social media use affect student academic performance?"
What are (any of these): the same type of social media, the same academic class/teacher/assessments, the same students, etc.? (Basically anything that's not the amount of time spent on social media or student academic performance.)
The graph that shows the data in this table.
What is a graph similar to this?
The kilogram equivalent of 24.3 grams.
What is 0.0243 kilograms?
An error in an experiment
What is BIAS