Characteristics of Living Things
TAILS
Scientific Method.
Variables
Miscellaneous
100
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
100
What goes on the top of the graph?
What is the title?
100
Prediction based on prior knowledge and background info.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Variable that remains the same.
What is the control variable
100
What does biology mean?
What is the study of life.
200
Body maintains internal balance.
What is homeostasis?
200
The shape of the axis.
What is an L shape.
200
Process for experimentation that is used to explore observations and answer questions.
What is the scientific method?
200
Variable being tested.
What is the independent variable.
200
What are the two types of reproduction?
What is sexual and asexual?
300
When a species changes over time.
What is evolution?
300
Where does the dependent variable and independent variable go?
What is the dependent variable is on the y axis and the independent variable is on the x axis?
300
Difference between observations and inference.
What is observation is collecting data using your 5 senses. Inference is coming up with a conclusion based off data that may or may not be true?
300
The variable that is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
300
How many variables should be tested at one time?
What is one?
400
Determines inherited traits.
What is genetic code?
400
Ethan is doing an experiment and measuring the effect of fertilizer growth. What should the title be?
What is the effect of fertilizer on plant growth.
400
What does PIHERC stand for?
What is Problem, Information, Hypothesis, Experiment, Record, and Conclusion?
400
Abraham is testing what type of bird seed that pigeons like the most. He sets up three stations with different bird seed. He records the amount of birds at each station. What is the dependent variable?
What is the number of birds?
400
What should you do after drawing conclusions?
What is communicate results?
500
External signals that an organism responds to.
What is light, temperature, and hormones.
500
What does TAILS stand for?
What is Title, Axis, Interval, Label, Scale?
500
Thomas writes down the results of his experiment, what step is this?
What is record data?
500
Bob is testing the effect of two types of flea medicine of dogs. He has two identical dogs with the same gender, breed, and age. What is missing from this experiment?
What is control variable?
500
How many red blood cells can fit on the head of a pin? 1 million 64,000 73,000 100,000
What is 64,000