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Scientific Method
Living Things
Needs of Organisms
How Organisms Use Energy
Behavior and Reproduction
100
An "educated guess"
What is hypothesis?
100
Any living thing.
What is an ORGANISM?
100
Organisms that make their own food.
What is an AUTOTROPH?
100
Organisms that get energy by consuming other organisms.
What is a HETEROTROPH?
100
Scientist that created an experiment using jars of meat and three variables to disprove the idea that life could come from non-living things.
Who is ALEXANDER REDI?
200
Data includes what you hear, see, or feel.
What is QUALITATIVE?
200
The basic unit of structure and function in living things.
What is a CELL?
200
A characteristic of living things that allows them to maintain their species.
What is REPRODUCTION?
200
A type of heterotroph that breaks down decaying matter and returns nutrients to the soil.
What is a decomposer?
200
The inactive state of some animals during winter months.
What is HIBERNATION?
300
This variable should be changed it the results or your experiment do no support your hypothesis.
What is INDEPENDENT VARIABLE?
300
The ultimate source of energy for most living things.
What is SUNLIGHT?
300
The process of keeping conditions inside a body constant.
What is HOMEOSTASIS?
300
Autotrophs produce this carbohydrate as a product of photosynthesis.
What is SUGAR(glucose)?
300
The idea that "Life begets Life"
What is BIOGENESIS?
400
This step should always be written as a question.
What is STATE THE PROBLEM?
400
Examples would include temperature, water, soil, sunlight.
What are ABIOTIC FACTORS?
400
Characteristic of living things that requires food for energy.
What is GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT?
400
Examples are corals, trees, and mushrooms.
What are living things that do not move?
400
An organism's ability to respond positively to stimuli in their environment and
What is ADAPTATION?
500
In an experiment testing the pH of different solutions, name the solution that would be considered the control?
What is WATER?
500
Name the scientist whose contributions help keep dairy products from spoiling too soon.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
500
An organism's ability to respond positively to stimuli in their environment and
What is ADAPTATION?
500
The one reactant needed by all living things to release energy from food.
What is OXYGEN?
500
The gradual accumulation of adaptations over time.
What is EVOLUTION?