Scientific Method
A tool used to magnify small objects that often can't be seen with the human eye.
What is a microscope?
The smallest unit of life.
The main part of a plant that carries water and nutrients to other parts of the plant and gives the plant structure.
What is the stem?
A living thing, such as a plant, animal, bacteria or human.
What is an organism?
To change in order to survive in the current environment.
What is to adapt?
A scientific procedure used to learn new things.
What is an experiment?
The coded instructions for a cell.
What is DNA?
The series of chemical reactions that plants use to make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
Many different species in one area.
What is biodiversity?
Passed down from parents to their young.
What is inherited?
Numbers or facts collected from an experiement.
What is data?
A part of a cell that has a specific funtion.
What is an organelle?
Water (H2O), Carbon Dioxide (CO2), and Sunlight.
What are the ingredients for photosynthesis?
A list showing what each species eats in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain?
What is fertilization?
Research done in the natural enviornment, outside of the lab.
What is fieldwork?
More complex cell type that contains a nucleus and makes up multicellular organisms.
What are eukaryotic cells?
A sugar that provides energy for living things.
What is glucose?
A living thing that eats other animals for food.
What is a predator?
The time when a baby develops in the womb before being born (about 40 weeks).
So other scientists can do similar research and learn more.
What is the importance of sharing scientific results?
A scientific theory in biology stating that all living organisms are composed of cells, cells are the basic unit of life, and all cells come from pre-existing cells.
What is cell theory?
A membrane-bound organelle found in plant cells that is responsible for photosynthesis, converting light energy into chemical energy.
What is chloroplast?
The regular, usually seasonal, movement of all or part of an animal population to and from a given area.
What is migration?
The process by which organisms that adapt better to their environment are more liekly to survive and reproduce.
What is Natural Selection?