Introductory terms
What is science?
What is biology?
The study of life
What is the basic unit of life?
Cell
Name the five parts of our graphing checklist
Title
Axis
Labels
Key
Scale
Who was President when was St Patrick High School was founded?
Abraham Lincoln
Bio - life
ology - study of
Using the checklist we talked about, draw a bar graph on the board. It can be about anything you want.
Use the TALKS checklist
An organism's ability to maintain a relatively stable internal environment
What is the median?
8, 4, 5, 9, 7, 11, 2, 10
(7 + 8) / 2 = 7.5
What is the strongest muscle in the human body based on its size?
Masseter (jaw)
Name one qualitative observation and one quantitative observation in the classroom.
Quan: has numbers
Qual: five senses
Come up to the board. Draw a bar graph, line graph, and pie chart.
Answers on board
Describe a symbiotic relationship. Give one specific example from nature.
A close relationship between two organisms in which at least one benefits.
Convert 300 mL to L
.300 L
Assuming you are 15 years old, how long have you slept for?
1/3 of your life or 5 years
Describe the importance of sample size and repetition.
Sample size is how many subjects you have in an experiment. Repetition is how many times it is repeated. Ideally, you need both to be large in order to have a valid experiment.
Ms. Robinson is planting tomato plants. She gives them equal amounts of water. For sunlight, the plants get either 1, 2, or 3 hours. She wants to measure growth. What is the IV and DV?
IV: sunlight
DV: plant growth
Come up to the board and write what DNA stands for.
Deoxyribonucleic acid.
Convert .6789 kg to mg.
678900 mg
Cervical vertebrae make up your neck. For reference, a human has 7 neck bones. How many neck bones, or cervical vertebrae, does a giraffe have?
7
What is the importance of the scientific method? Name at least 4 of the 7 steps.
Make an observation
Ask a question
Make a hypothesis
Test hypothesis
Analyze data
Draw conclusions
Communicate results
You'd like to devise an experiment on free throw shooting. You are wondering, does listening to music affect free throw shooting. Name the IV, DV, and a control variable.
IV: music vs no music
DV: free throw %
CV: height of basket
Name the 6 characteristics of living things.
Homeostasis, complex chemistry, made up of cells, grow and develop, respond to environment, reproduce
Convert 6000 cm to km
.06 km
The Chicago flag has four stars and two stripes. Name the significance of THREE of them.