Prefix/Suffix
What does Bio mean?
Life
What is the act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way
Observation
What is an independent variable?
The variable that "I" deliberately changed
How many characteristics of life are there?
8
There are 17 vocabulary words this week
FALSE
What does the prefix a or an mean? Example: Asexual, Abiotic, Anaerobic
Without, not, no, not having
What is a particular preference or point of view that is personal rather than scientific called?
Bias
If there were two groups getting medicine, one was getting the new medicine and the other getting a sugar pill, what would you call the group getting the placebo (sugar)
The control group
How many characteristics of life do you have to exhibit to be considered living?
all 8
An experiment in which only one variable is changed is called an Independent experiment
FALSE! it's called a controlled experiment
What is an autotroph?
Something that makes itself food
example: plants doing photosynthesis
Stimulus
I am studying the effects of fertilizer on the height of tomato plants. I have one group getting 2 cups of fertilizer, one group getting only one cup and one group getting none. What is the independent and dependent variable in this scenario
The independent is the amount of fertilizer I added. The dependent is how tall the tomato plant grew.
Name a living thing, dead thing and a nonliving thing
up to you!
CER stands for Claim, experiment, results
FALSE! Claim, Evidence, Reasoning
What does the word Echinoderm mean?
spikey or prickly skin
The combination of chemical reactions through which an organism builds up or breaks down materials
Metabolism
A team of psychologists wants to find out if looking at a smartphone screen right before bed impacts how deeply a person sleeps.
Name the independent variable, dependent variable and control group of this experiment
Independent- amount of phone usage before bed
Dependent- the amount of deep sleep the person gets
Control- having a group of people that do not use smartphones before bed for a normal baseline of sleep
Is leather living, dead or nonliving
nonliving- leather is the skin of an animal
We are Prokaryotic organisms
FALSE. We are Eukaryotic
What is Anthropology?
The study of Man/humans
What is an experiment in which only one variable is changed?
a controlled experiment
Suppose medical researchers want to test a new pill, "CardioMax," to see if it lowers high blood pressure. They recruit 1,000 participants who all have a similar baseline blood pressure.
Come up with the independent variable, dependent variable and control group of this experiment
independent- how much of the "Cardiomax you are giving to the group getting the meds
dependent- how much that effects their blood pressure
control group- the group you give a placebo pill to
Name all of the characteristics of life
cells, homeostasis, metabolism, respond to stimuli, grow & develop, DNA, Evolve, reproduction
Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment.
TRUE!!