CER
Inference or Observation
Characteristics of Life
Life
"Potpourri"
100

Answer to a question in a complete sentence.

What is the Claim?

100

Ms. Ferebee is grumpy today.

What is an inference?

100
The smallest unit of life.
What is a cell?
100

This word means the study of living things.

What is biology?

100

The place you can find all information you need to be successful in Life Science this year.

What is google classroom?

200

Can be either quantitative or qualitative.

What is evidence to support the claim?

200
There must be a fire.
What is an inference.
200

Baby macaque monkeys look like their parents.

What is heredity?

200

Prefix that means "without."

What is "a"?

200

Examples of things you should not do in the lab. (Choose 4)

What are eating, drinking, running, smelling containers directly, having your hair down, not using gloves, etc?

300

Information that you already know about the question.

What is background information?

300
I smelled the smoke and heard the fire truck sirens
What is an observation.
300

Keeping in balance, like a person sweating when they are too hot.

What is homeostasis?

300

Science word for something that is living. For example, one frog.

What is an organism?

300

The date of your test.

What is Friday, October 6th?

400

Complete sentence explanation about how you have connected the data to the claim.

What is Reasoning?

400

22 out of 25 flowers died in the salt water mixture. (Be specific)

What is a quantitative observation.

400

Changes over time, like an egg becomes a tadpole and finally a frog.

What is growth and development?

400

Queenie the chicken laying an egg is a good example of this.

What are reproduction and heredity?

400

This is where the fire extinguisher is.

What is the wall by the door?

500

When would you need to use a CER?

What is anytime you need to communicate information about data you have collected.

500

This type of observation uses describing words. (Be specific!)

What is a Qualitative observation?

500

The eight characteristics of life.

What is: Cells, Reproduction, Heredity, Growth and Development, Metabolism, Respond to Stimuli, Homeostasis, Evolution

500

The crickets in Leo the lizard's cage chirping and moving like crazy demonstrated this characteristic of life.

What is response to stimuli?

500
This is how long you have to wash your eyes if you get something in them.
What is 15 minutes?