A possible explanation for a set of observations or answer to a scientific question
What is a hypothesis
100
The study of life
What is biology?
100
The process by which a living thing becomes larger
What is growth?
100
Processes that enable a living thing to survive?
What is function?
200
Using one or more of your senses to gain information
What is observing?
200
The variable that is purposely changed in an experiment
What is the manipulated variable?
200
Another name for a living thing
What is an organism?
200
The tiny building blocks that make up all living things
What are cells?
200
The way an organism is put together as a whole
What is structure?
300
When you explain or interpret the things you observe
What is inferring?
300
The facts figures and other evidence gathered during an investigation
What is data?
300
The process of change that causes an organism to become more complex
What is development?
300
Every living thing is made mostly of ______
What is water?
300
Type of observation that involves numbers, measurements or amounts
What is quantitative?
400
The process of grouping things together that are alike in some way
What is classifying?
400
The variables that are kept the same for all subjects in an investigation
What are the controlled variables?
400
Means working together to meet the needs of a living thing
What is complementary?
400
Plants are able to capture _______ from sunlight
What is energy?
400
Making a forecast of what will happen in the future based on past evidence or experience
What is predicting?
500
This is a model that accurately shows the proportions between its parts
What is a scale model?
500
A scientist wanted to know if dogs that have long hair get more fleas than dogs with short hair. What would the responding variable be in this investigation?
What is the number of fleas the dogs get?
500
The study of how information is passed from parents to offspring
What is Genetics?
500
Most living things contain ________, the chemical that controls all of the activities of the cell and allows them to pass information to their offspring?
What is DNA?
500
Another name for the manipulated variable is the _______
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