Scientific Practices
Experiments
Cells
Cell Parts
General Questions
100
“I see a car on the road.” is an example of which part of science?
What is an observation?
100
The part of the experiment where you expect a change to happen.
What is the experimental group?
100
The size to which a cell can grow is limited by this.
What is surface area?
100
A structure within a cell that performs a specific function.
What is an organelle?
100
It is the study of living things.
What is biology?
200
It is a logical explanation based on what the scientists already know.
What is an inference?
200
The variable in the experiment that is deliberately changed.
What is the independent variable?
200
All living things are composed of one or more cells is part of this theory.
What is the cell theory?
200
It receives proteins and lipids from the endoplasmic reticulum.
What is the Golgi apparatus?
200
It is what chromatin turns into before cell division.
What are chromosomes?
300
It is a representation of an object or system that a scientist creates or uses to understand something.
What is a model?
300
The part of the scientific experiment that does not receive the treatment.
What is the control group?
300
The structure that regulates what enters and leaves the cell.
What is the cell membrane?
300
The double membrane surrounding the nucleus.
What is the nuclear envelope?
300
It refers to organisms changing over time.
What is evolution?
400
It is any piece of information you collect for your experiment.
What is data?
400
The part of science is involved in putting monkeys on the road to see if cars will run them over.
What is a controlled experiment?
400
It is when cells from two different parents unite to form another organism.
What is sexual reproduction?
400
One important organelle that helps maintain homeostasis by moving supplies from one part of the cell to the other.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum?
400
The molecule in the cell membrane that has a polar “head” and two nonpolar “tails.”
What is a phospholipid?
500
What is a collection of information that scientists have been putting together for many years?
What is science?
500
It is what the scientist does to proof a hypothesis.
What is an experiment?
500
It is a condition of maintaining a stable level of internal conditions.
What is homeostasis?
500
They are the organelles that provides energy for the cell.
What are the mitochondria?
500
It is something from the environment that causes an organism to respond.
What is a stimulus?