Scientific Method
A testable, reasonable explanation for a natural phenomenon
What is a hypothesis?
Biology is the study of this.
What is Life
The Domain Archaea is a large, highly inclusive group of prokaryotes that can live in these kind of environments.
What are the organisms that live in extreme environments such as hot springs, hydrothermal vents, or hot lava?
The variable that is changed or manipulated in an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
The smallest particle of all matter.
What is the atom?
I have lost my sunglasses, ask myself questions, experiment with where they might be, and conclude that they were not lost, I just misplaced them. This is a process that I do nearly everyday. But in Science it is called this:
What is the scientific method?
The most basic structural and functional unit of life.
What is the cell?
Eukaryota, Bacteria, Archea are the highest levels of taxonomy.
What are the Domains of life?
This is a description of observations that contains physical descriptions such as texture, color, or behavior.
What is qualitative data?
The level that comes after Organ but before Organism.
What is the Organ System?
This an experiment where there is a variable that doesn't change at all (control) and a variable that is changed and compared to the variable that doesn't change.
What is a controlled experiment?
7 of them are: Order, Growth and Development, Reproduction, Irritibility, Regulation, Energy Processing, Adaptation
What are the characteristics of life?
The Kingdoms of Domain Eukaryota.
What are 4 Kingdoms?
They are Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, and Protists.
This responds or is affected by what happens when factors change in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
A group of organs make up an _________.
During an experiment, this is often represented by a graph or a table that tells a story about the findings.
What is scientific data?
This term explains how living organisms have the ability to respond to stimuli.
What is irritability? or
What is response to environment?
True or False: The hierarchical order of Life is broadest (most number of species) at the species level.
False! Domain has the broadest, then Kingdom, then Phylum, then Class, then Order, then Family, then Genus, then Species.
The normal variable that is not experimented on and used for comparison.
What is the control group.
A Population has more variety of organisms than community. True or False.
False. A population is one species in a given area. A community is all the living species in a given area.
After performing an experiment, 1.) physical characteristics are observed and 2.) data is recorded in the form of measurements or other numbers. These are called, in order:
What are Qualitative and Quantitative observations?
This is the characteristic of life that sweating or shivering falls into.
What is regulation?
Dear King Philip Came Over for Good Spaghetti. The official words are these:
What is the acronym for Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species?
An experiment is performed to prove or disprove this:
What is a hypothesis?
List the following terms in order of smallest to largest:
Cell, Ecosystem, Community, Tissues, Organ Systems, population, organism
Cell, Tissues, Organ Systems, Organism, Population, Community, Ecosystem