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What is Science
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Characteristics of Life
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100
The type of data that uses specific numbers or amounts
What is Quantitative
100
Type of data that is based on descriptions not numbers
What is qualitative
100

A ________ experiment is when only one factor is changed at a time

What is a controlled

100
the maintaining of constant internal conditions or balance
What is homeostasis
100
To learn how animals in the wild interact with others in their group, researchers carry out ______ studies
What is field
200
Information gathered through observations
What is data
200
a proposed scientific explanation that can be tested
What is a hypothesis
200
Scientists use the data from an experiment in order to evaluate the ________.
What is the hypothesis
200
Contains __________ information found in DNA and RNA
What is genetic
200
The part of the Earth that contains all ecosystems
What is biosphere
300
organized way of using evidence to learn about the natural world
What is scientific method
300

variable that the scientist purposely changes during an experiment

What is the independent/manipulated variable

300
True or false: A scientific theory is absolute truth and is never changed.
What is false
300
As a group, organisms _______ over time
What is evolve
300
Levels of organization from smallest to largest: molecules, cells, groups of cells, organism, __________, community, ecosystem, biosphere
What is population
400
Biology means
What is the study of life or living things
400
a well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations
What is a scientific theory
400
In Redi's experiment with the maggots, the gauze covering was the ________ variable
What is manipulated
400
Are composed of _____, the basic unit of life
What are cells
400
Shivering to keep warm is an example of this process
What is homeostasis
500
A logical explanation for a set of observations
What is an inference
500
A hypothesis must be proposed in a way that it can be
What is tested
500
When testing whether different amounts of fertilizer affects the growth height of plants, the responding variable would be the
What is responding variable
500
Living things can detect and respond to _______ from their environment
What is stimuli
500
Chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials
What is metabolism