Vocabulary
Scientific Method
Life Functions
Elemental
100

Biology

The study of life and living things

100

The proposed answer to a scientific question (what you think will happen)

Hypothesis
100

An increase in the number of cells

Growth

100

The smallest unit of matter

Atom

200

Biologist

Scientists who study biology

200

The procedure used to test a hypothesis

Experiment

200

The creation of a new organism with its own cells

Reproduction

200

What does an element's "atomic number" tell you

The number of protons an atom contains (elements are organized in the periodic table based on their atomic number)

300

Cells

The basic unit of life; what all living things are made of

300

List of supplies needed to conduct an experiment

Materials

300

The taking in of food/nutrients

Nutrition

300

What is an element's "chemical symbol"

One or two letters that represent each element (usually the first two letters of the element's name)

400

Classification

The process of organizing living things based on structure or relationship

400

The things you noticed while conducting the experiment

Observations

400

The removal of waste products from the body

Excretion

400

What does atomic mass measure

The average mass of a single atom of the element

500

Chemical reaction

Whenever chemical bonds are formed or broken

500

Explaining the result (what happened, was your hypothesis correct or not, etc.)

Conclusion

500

How organisms change the conditions in their own bodies in order to survive in changing environments

Regulation

500
List the three states of matter and explain the difference between them (or how the atoms in each are interacting/acting)

Solid- Tightly packed atoms, rigid

Liquid- Atoms close to one another but not tightly packed, they slide past each other so it has no defined shape

Gas- atoms are distant from one another