Scientific Method
Description of something you can see, smell, touch, taste & hear
What is observation?
The name given to the group used to compare with your experimental group. Often called the "norm"
What is the control group?
An organism that produces it's own food
What is an autotroph?
Which of the 6 characteristics of life is represented by a baby songbird hatching from it's shell?
What is reproduction?
The smallest living thing that can perform activities of life is ____________________.
What is a cell?
A guess about an object or outcome based on your observations
What is an inference?
Considered the aspects of an experiment that are held constant or consistent throughout. For example: same age, same gender, same breakfast, same information
What are constants?
A heterotroph that only eats plants
What is an herbivore?
Which of the 6 characteristics of life is demonstrated by a worm turning away from light.
An organism made of only one cell that can perform all processes necessary for life is called
What is an unicellular organism?
This is the variable that the experimenter deliberately changes or manipulates in the investigation
What is the independent variable?
This is the independent variable in the hypothesis below...
If a student attends after school tutoring, then they will score higher on their test than students who do not attend tutoring
What is whether or not they attend tutoring?
An organism that eats either plants OR animals to obtain energy
What is an omnivore?
Sweating when hot and shivering when cold helps a human to maintain
What is homeostasis?
Given an example of a multi-cellular organism
What is (any plant, animal, or non unicellular organism)
“If (IV) then (DV) “
IV = Independent variable = Cause
DV = Dependent variable = Effect
This is the formula for...
What is a hypothesis?
This is the dependent variable in the hypothesis below...
If a students attends after school tutoring, then they will score higher on their test than students who do not attend tutoring
What is test scores?
The main source of energy for all living things comes from the
What is the sun?
Identify the characteristic: a caterpillar hibernates in a cocoon and emerges as a butterfly.
What is growth and/or development?
The tool scientists use to look at things to small to see with bare eyes.
What is a microscope.
This is the variable that changes in response to the experiment
What is the dependent variable?
This is the experimental group in this experiment...
I want to design an experiment to see if drinking coffee makes students score higher on test
What is different amounts of coffee?
Remember, it is what we are testing in an experiment.
An heterotroph that obtains energy by releasing chemicals to digest their food THEN ingesting it.
What is a decomposer?
The energy to perform life functions is made available during the process of ____.
What is metabolism?
If you are using a 40x objective on a microscope, what is the total magnification?
What is 400x