maintenance of internal conditions, such as temperature, moisture level, acidity, and other factors essential to life.
What is Homeostasis
100
allow researchers to control variables in an experiment.
EX: mice
What is Model?
100
Smallest unit of an element: composed of electrons, protons, neutrons
What is Atom?
100
death of a species or larger classification category
What is Extinction
100
all atoms with the same amount of protons is called
What is atomic number
200
the capacity to do work and it takes work to maintain the organization of the cell and the organism.
What is Energy?
200
formal way of watching the natural world: uses all senses
What is Observation?
200
the variation of life on earth, usually referring to the number of different species.
What is Biodiversity
200
New diseases such as avian influenza and SARS, and Ebola
What is Emerging Disease
200
atoms of the same element that differ in the number of neutrons
What is Isotopes
300
is the smallest, most basic unit of life. lowest level of biological organization that displays all the characteristics of life.
What is Cell?
300
involves "if,then" statements
What is Deductive Reasoning
300
the discipline of identifying and naming organisms according to certain rules.
What is Taxonomy
300
the study of the variety of life on earth and their evolutionary relationships with one another.
What is Systematic
300
the representation of where the electrons are located
What is electron shell
400
Genetic instructions inherited by an organisms parents, in the form of DNA
What is Genes?
400
group that is not exposed to the experimental variable
What is Control Group
400
a group of cells with a common structure and function
What is Tissue?
400
the application of scientific knowledge to the interest of humans
What is Technology
400
sum of protons and neutrons
What is mass number
500
as the environment changes, some individuals of a species (a group of organisms that can successfully interbreed and produced fertile offspring) may possess certain features that make them better suited to the new environment.
What is adaptations?
500
concepts that join together well-supported and related hypotheses
What is Theory
500
a community plus the physical environment
What is Ecosystem
500
the increased amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is causing rise in temperature